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Re: Anyone Remember Zero Knowledge Systems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damian Gerow)
Wed Sep 10 14:17:00 2003
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:48:17 -0400
From: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, cypherpunks@lne.com
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Thus spake R. A. Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) [10/09/03 11:51]:
> Imagine a world where your file swapping software also included a
> Freedom-like client that routed your request through a maze of encrypting
> routers. The routers themselves could be placed in different countries.
> This could make for big headaches when the RIAA moves to subpoena logs of
> file swapper's activities. They couldn't get the logs from the ISPs
> because there's no way the ISP could peek in the traffic stream to
> identify offending content. They could try to put a sniffer on a US-based
> encrypting network node, but there's likely little information that could
> be gathered from this; the "payload" of a packet is encrypted with a key
> that the intermediate routers don't know.
Sounds like Freenet:
<http://freenetproject.org/>
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