From: adam.philipp@ties.org (Adam Philipp)
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 94 13:11:13 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: usenet-to-mail
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>"Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu> wrote:
>>More importantly, are there are usenet-to-mail gateways?
>
>Would there by any benefit to doing this at all over the present system?
>Why would someone submit a message to the remailer "bramble" via newsgroup
>instead of just mailing it?  Unless you find an anonymous way to post to
>the newsgroup in the first place, your security seems to be seriously
>compromised. Even if everything is encrypted, you've made traffic analysis
>a huge amount easier.  And if you are finding a way to post the a newsgroup
>anonymously in the first place, odds are you have some other entry point to
>the remailer bramble, so why make a stop on the newsgroup opening yourself
>up to traffic analysis?
>
>Now that I think about it, it seems that there isn't really any reason for
>such a thing.
>
Also one very bad reason NOT to do this. Posting to a newsgroup would remove
any ECPA protection that your e-mail may have had. Sure, it isn't much, but
at least proven interception could discourage traffic analysis. Proving it
is left as an exercise for the student.

     Adam

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