[91755] in Cypherpunks
Re: Where is the c-p traffic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Sat Dec 13 00:23:24 1997
To: nobody@bureau42.ml.org (bureau42 Anonymous Remailer)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 22:54:24 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <RDvqcZVpjaFFBY1SSH4gwA==@bureau42.ml.org> from "bureau42 Anonymous Remailer" at Dec 13, 97 00:30:30 am
From: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
bureau42 Anonymous Remailer wrote:
> Oh dear! I just realized that c-p _could_ be subject to an interesting
> MITM attack: By subtlely modifiying the text of c-p messages arriving
> at certain key recipients, the bad guys could then correlate the quoted
> text in resulting anonymous replies to the list with individuals, and
> could probably also shave a layer or two off the remailer chains
> through which those messages were sent. The determination of
And you obviously have a way to defend against this attack. Inventing
the way to do it is left as an exercise to the readers.
- Igor.
