From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 07:59:42 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Mixmaster On A $20 Floppy?
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I wrote:
# I suppose that a site that escapes detection as a Mixmaster will throw off
# the correlation stats (i.e. because a message from that site to B won't be
# identified as a remailed message). But such sites are elusive objects I
# think. On the one hand, the site can't endure for long, or else its
# throughput traffic will likely give it away as an anonymizer (i.e. it gets
# lots of mail from the Mix network, and sends out similar amounts of mail to
# all sorts of people and the network). On the other hand, it had better last,
# or else it will look suspicious as a transient account receiving mail from
# the Mix network, sending a few messages, and quickly vanishing.

Lance writes:
> The second paragraph seems to deal with the issue of being known as an
> anonymous remailer or regular remailer user. I am not sure exactly what the
> concern with that is.

I was trying to explore possible ways to beat TA with less bandwidth, in the
context of transient (w.r.t. network address) anonymizers. I indicated doubt
about the possibility of any real gain, and as I think about it more I'm
not able to convince myself that there's any real value at all in that 
regard.

Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>		- "IBM ?"
Go Colts !				- "All the girls are doing it"

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