[66847] in Cypherpunks
Re: What about making re-mailers automatically chain?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey C. Grabow)
Mon Sep 30 09:18:16 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:51:56 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "Geoffrey C. Grabow" <gcg@pb.net>
At 09:30 09/29/96 -0800, you wrote:
>At 4:14 AM -0500 9/29/96, David E. Smith wrote:
>
>>I dunno about that one. Even if the message itself is encrypted,
>>every remailer has to have the address of the final recipient for
>>your plan to work. And if you have cleartext for that message
>...
>
>Actually, as I read the original proposal, it was to only _insert_
>additional links. Thus, imagine the following remailer chain, with
Alice
>sending to Zeke through a chain, represented in parentheses (like
LISP):
>
That's what I was going for. The re-mailer would only add links if the
recip that it sees is another mailer. If it doesn't recognize the
destination as a remailer, it must assume that it's the last link and
should send the mail. If that doesn't happen Dave's right. Multiple
mailers would know the final dest. The question I was heading for on
this is:
Does this add anything useful?
Removing knowledge of the path from the sender is a plus. This prevents
anyone, even the sender, from being able to give up any useful info even
if under court order. Adding "random" traffic is helpful 'cause many
people (including myself) use pre-fab anon scripts and therefore use the
same anon paths all the time (I should stop that). This opens those
messages up to some analysis and the possibility of the sender being
revealed.
Granted, these are not major items. The real question is:
Is this worth implementing? As gbroiles@netbox.com said:
>All of this (adding remailer status tracking based on frequent updates
of
>digitally signed information from a trusted third party) can be done,
but
>it's a pain in the ass to code...
G.C.G.
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