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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Wed Oct 2 10:01:58 1996
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 13:43:02 GMT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
10-8-96. VV:
"The Remailer Is Dead, Long Live the Remailer. Life After
Penet." By Dave Mandl (Excellent, Dave, yes!)
By the strict standards of the cypherpunks, a loosely
knit affinity group of the Net's most radical and
technoliterate privacy advocates, Penet's security was
actually on the flimsy side. Its Achilles' heel was the
file -- just begging to be subpoenaed -- that linked
users' real names to their Penet pseudonyms.
Cypherpunk-run remailers, on the other hand, generally
leave no trace of the sender's true identity. In
addition, cypherpunk remailers can be "chained" --
messages can be routed through several far-flung
remailers before reaching their final destination, making
message tracing all but impossible, even for the remailer
operators.
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