[6066] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Freedom/Pipenet Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lcs Mixmaster Remailer)
Mon Nov 15 12:25:22 1999
Date: 15 Nov 1999 12:00:07 -0000
Message-ID: <19991115120007.21035.qmail@nym.alias.net>
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
In-reply-to: <NDBBIFGOKODBCKDGJDKLGEKBCMAA.shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Lucky Green wrote:
> Over the years, using Wei Dai's term Pipenet (or Pipe-net, as it was
spelled
> originally) has firmly been established as denotating an anonymous IP
> network that uses constant or otherwise data independent "pipes" between
the
> nodes of the network. Since Freedom uses link padding, I would consider
> Freedom a Pipenet.
Problem is, PipeNet also refers to a specific protocol design (it's
published at http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/pipenet.txt). I suggest using
"pipenet" with lower-case letters to denote the class of protocols that
use data-independent traffic to achieve untraceability, and "PipeNet" to
denote Wei Dai's protocol.
Freedom cannot currently be considered a pipenet because the traffic
padding functionality has not been turned on yet.
