From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: db@Tadpole.COM (Doug Barnes)
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Raw Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 13:27:39 PST
From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 13:27:39 PST
To: db@Tadpole.COM (Doug Barnes)
Subject: Re: Broadcasts - addressing
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| I have been contemplating how to mark broadcast messages as being
| 'for' someone. To foil traffic analysis, you don't want to include
| their nym or key-id, for the sake of the your poor CPU, you want to
| avoid the need to attempt decryption on everything that passes through.
Keys are cheap. Everyone should have a bunch. To foil
TA, hand out a key to each correspondant. Give them id's like
'latex.limb.malaise <alt.anonymous.mesages>'
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
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