From: pstemari@erinet.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 16:28:31 PST
To: Michael Handler <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Reordering, not Latency (Was: Re: Remailer)
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At 09:10 PM 1/25/95, Michael Handler wrote:
> ... I have literally hundreds of messages archived from the CP list of
>several months back where Eric Hughes repeatedly states that reordering,
>not latency, is the key. Reordering of a sufficient magnitude will
>introduce latency inherently. Otherwise you are still vulnerable to 
>traffic analysis (which is an art, not a science, remember).

The headache with reordering of that sort is that you can't reply to a 
message until you've seen the message you're replying to.  There's a certain 
level of ordering that can't be changed.

    --Paul J. Ste. Marie
      pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com