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Re: Foiling Traffic Analysis

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Tue Jan 2 23:32:00 1996

From: Carl Ellison <cme@clark.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 23:21:26 -0500 (EST)
To: shamrock@netcom.com
Cc: cme@ACM.ORG, cypherpunks@toad.com, jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu, tcmay@got.net

>Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 19:44:53 -0800
>From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
>Subject: Re: Foiling Traffic Analysis

>At 20:02 1/2/96, Jon Lasser wrote:
>
>>When the group of packets arrives at a given station, it replaces its
>>current encrypted packet with a new packet;

>All participants in this network are clearly guilty of conspiracy. Their
>assets will be confiscated under RICO. 

Sounds like disasterizing to me.

This is merely a technical means for producing anonymous communications.

Anonymity = conspiracy?

 - Carl

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