From: Ed Carp <ecarp@netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 94 13:33:22 PDT
To: Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: REMAIL: pseudo-account remailer @andrew gains anonymous feature
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On Sun, 10 Apr 1994, Matthew J Ghio wrote:

> Ed Carp <ecarp@netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> > How about generating a secure hash and using that as an index
> > into a table?  If there's an address already there, use that -
> > otherwise, generate one.
> > 
> > Generate the hash from the incoming address, of course.  That way,
> > you  don't need to keep track of anon-id-to-real-id mappings, yet
> > guarantee that each user has one and only one anon address. Of
> > course, folks coming in from different hosts will have different
> > anon ID's.
> > 
> > Or have I missed some blindingly obvious technical point thaqt
> > would make this impossible?
> 
> I don't see how this would prevent me from having to keep track of
> anon-id-to-real-id mappings.  It could work for sending mail, but I'd
> still have to have some way of keeping track of the real ids for the
> replies.

Ah, yes, I *knew* I had missed something obvious...  Thanks.