1993-01-21 - Re: random remailers

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From: Eric Messick <eric@parallax.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 772e2a07fbe3f52f12be65f00900bb4d8f96255ce31d092fb60a36b880dd32d0
Message ID: <9301212047.AA04073@parallax.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1993-01-21 21:32:16 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:32:16 PST

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From: Eric Messick <eric@parallax.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:32:16 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: random remailers
Message-ID: <9301212047.AA04073@parallax.com>
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>> Has anyone thought about the consequence of randomly picking a
>> remailing path instead of using the same one?
>
>what if the remailer flips a coin, choosing between final delivery
>and remailing through another of its ilk.  "message delivery with
>probability one ..."

The problem with this is that every site along the way has to know the
final delivery address, at least of this subset of the address chain.
Better to just send it directly, and add some load balancing traffic.

-eric messick





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