1996-05-22 - Re: Long-Lived Remailers

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From: loki@infonex.com (Lance Cottrell)
To: snow <cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: d9319cef421f3ca6993542b4d25fdb5baffdb5c01b46b00cfb2d22422b1b9836
Message ID: <adc875e00402100436b2@[206.170.115.3]>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-05-22 12:04:40 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:04:40 +0800

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From: loki@infonex.com (Lance Cottrell)
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:04:40 +0800
To: snow <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Long-Lived Remailers
Message-ID: <adc875e00402100436b2@[206.170.115.3]>
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At 5:39 PM 5/21/96, snow wrote:
<SNIP>
>
>        Randomize the output remailer? Sometimes Alice exits Bob,
>Sometimes Charlie, sometimes Tom etc.
>
>
>Petro, Christopher C.
>petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
>snow@crash.suba.com

A list of reliable back end remailers (output) could be kept, and
automatically used by the front end remailers. This would allow the back
end remailers to be highly transient, but keep the remailers used in chains
stable.

A remailer would randomly choose one of the 99% reliable back end remailers
for each outgoing message.

This could be done even more disposably using alpha type nyms.
Speaking of which, it looks like my nym server is working:
alias@alias.cyberpass.net
Send to help@alias.cyberpass.net for instructions and the key.

        -Lance

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