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Re: Fling: to be snake oil, or not to be snake oil?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Mon Jul 10 23:53:58 2000
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:10:08 -0700
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From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
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At 09:52 AM 7/10/00 -0500, Ryan Tool wrote:
>
>Has anyone heard of the new internet protocol fling. This is what their
>site says:
>
>Fling is a new suite of internet protocols that perform the function of DNS,
>TCP, and UDP in a manner that's both untraceable and untappable. Fling
>protects clients from servers, servers from clients, and both from an
>eavesdropper in-between. The result is that anyone can serve or retrieve any
>data, without fear of censure.
>
>Here is the URL: http://fling.sourceforge.net/
>
>-Ryan
Looks like mixmaster/onion routing applied to IP? Its actually a couple of
things ---the DNS replacement is separable from the rest.