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Re: Haystack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Weis)
Wed Aug 18 11:15:19 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100818031035.1058333CA3@absinthe.tinho.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:57:14 -0700
From: Steve Weis <steveweis@gmail.com>
To: dan@geer.org
Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com List" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
I emailed the author Austin Heap again yesterday to ask for some
technical details. He responded and declined to provide any
information.
At this point, I have seen no evidence that Haystack exists.
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:10 PM, <dan@geer.org> wrote:
> =A0> Based on those statements, I'm going to speculate that the client
> =A0> connects to a static list of innocuous-looking proxies and that they
> =A0> are relying on keeping those proxies secret.
>
> Hmm, what is the chance that the static ones redirect to
> other proxies (some of which might even be unwitting)?
>
> Probably too out there.
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