From: solman@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 94 20:32:26 PDT
To: Jonathan Rochkind <jrochkin@cs.oberlin.edu>
Subject: Re: anonymous anonymous remailers?
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> > > Assume we create the alt.anonremailer.net newsgroup mechanism that  
> > > Jonathan Rochkind recently suggested (and it worked). >  > Could we
> > then not use the newsgroup, in combination with a net of   >
> > well-known remailers, to give us the capability to have some remailers
> > at   > unknown locations by having some remailers post encrypted reply
> > blocks as   > their "addresses"?
> > 
> > This is just painfully non-scalable. Sure it will work for now, but
> > its not something that will last once large numbers of people begin
> > using it.
>  
> Why? Which part, the whole idea of a remailer control newsgroup, or just
> the idea of remailers with unknown locations?

I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about posting the encrypted
messages themselves to the newgroup and having the unlocatable remailer
pick out the messages that are supposed to belong to it thus making it
so that NOBODY knows where the remailer is. Clearly this wouldn't scale.
But if we're talking about having some remailers know where the hidden
remailers are and only having the hidden remailers post the information
that allows it to be addressed, I guess there isn't a problem. Sorry.

JWS