From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 08:02:43 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Improved remailer reordering
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jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk (Jim Dixon) writes:
>You need not pass over the 'flaw of lack of message quantization in
>the final sending'.  Someone running a private high security gateway,
>an "empowered user", participates in the same way as the other RemailerNet
>gateways, and there is in fact no way to determine even whether he is
>sending or receiving, or in fact whether he is doing anything at all.
>He may be just sending and receiving noise packets.

>Users accessing the net using low security versions of the software do
>have less security, but that is a consequence of their use of low
>security software.

I could see this would come up in Jim's description.  Who exactly are these
"empowered users"?  And how much security do the second-class citizens ac-
tually get?  Will it work for everyone to become "empowered", or are there
scaling problems in terms of bandwidth?

It seems to me that the most sensible approach is to make message fragmen-
tation into standard-sized packets, along with reassembly, be at the
end user site.  This way everyone becomes a first-class citizen.

Hal