1994-12-12 - Re: Broadcasts and the Rendezvous Problem

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From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-12-12 01:05:44 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 11 Dec 94 17:05:44 PST

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From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 94 17:05:44 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Broadcasts and the Rendezvous Problem
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Tim wrote:
>L. Todd Masco wrote:
>
>> Seems to me that one of the fundamental building blocks necessary to
>> a host of anonymous services is a means of rendezvousing in a manner that
>> is not vulnerable to traffic analysis.
>>
>> The obvious solution to this is through the use of a broadcast medium.
>> Has anybody created an alt.* group purely for remailer-associated
>> rendezvous?
>
>Isn't this what "alt.anonymous.messages" is all about?
>
>(It's been at my Netcom site for many months now...I don't recall who
>created it, but it seems to me it was one of us.)

Which brings us back to the news -> mail gateway. There has to be a better way.

 I know that a small fraction of the net goes via satelite. Is there a way
to inject truely anonymous datagrams? Any hams out there?


-- Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
   PGP encrypted mail preferred.







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