From: jim@bilbo.suite.com (Jim Miller)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 21:32:12 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Anonymous Anonymous ftp
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Tim May writes:

> [stuff deleted]
>
> How is anonymous 2-way communication possible? Several
> ways:
> 

> - prepaid mailers, good for sending a packet to a
> destination. With the final address nested insided a
> series of encrypted packets, no mix along the way can
> identify Bob without extensive collusion with other
> mixes.
> 

> [stuff deleted]
> 

> - pools, a la the pools used by Miron Cuperman and by my own
> BlackNet experiment. Not a fast 2-way communication
> system, but it works.
> 

> - a Penet-style 2-way system, with additional security.
> Multiple...
> 


I understand how you can do 2-way anonymous communication via message  
pools and Penet-style systems, but I don't "get" prepaid mailers.  Could  
you post an example showing how two people can converse anonymously via  
prepaid mailers.

Thanks,

Jim_Miller@suite.com