From: Freedom Remailer <mixmaster@gondolin.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 19:49:38 PDT
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> Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
> From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
> Subject: The subtle danger of using Mixmaster
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> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 19:51:30 GMT
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> There are about twenty Mixmaster remailers. Reason to celebrate? Hardly.
> Though we have more remailers than ever, I doubt that the twenty or so
> Mixmasters are operated my more than six or seven people. I would not be
> surprised to find out that some folks are running several Mixmasters on
> the _same_ machine, using different IP addresses.
> 
> While the enthusiasm for increasing the number of remailers is
> understandable, the operation of more than one Mixmaster by the same
> person is downright dangerous, because it reduces the effective lenght of
> the remailer chain. The message that you sent through five remailers may
> have only been handled by two operators. When you thought that five people
> had to colaborate to trace your email, only two are in fact required to do
> so.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> -- 
> -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
>    PGP encrypted mail preferred.
>