From: loki@infonex.com (Lance Cottrell)
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 09:44:45 +0800
To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Subject: Re:  SEVERE undercapacity, we need more remailer servers FAST
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They are not very hard to set up and run. I think any blinding is likely to
be simple header faking. Totally insignificant security compared to
something like Mixmaster. I proposed a system some time back based on
message pools, but it attracted little interest. The down side of the
proposal is the large amount of bandwidth required. Each remailer has to
receive all messages for all remailers in the pool. The upside of the
proposal was that it allowed secure reply blocks (ones that can't simply be
tracked forward).

        -Lance

>I would really like to see a remailer that is somehow blinded.
>
>I don't know enough about how mail paths are generatered, but is it
>impossible to conceal the origin of remailer postings?
>
>Postings made to remailernym@alpha.c2.org would be spit out somewhere but
>without accountability?
>
>Impossible?  Would do wonders defeating traffic analysis.
>
>I'd consider running a remailer, but after listening to the response to
>the anonymous poster a while back, it sounds like there are few if any
>simple options which do not require major time and effort to setup and
>run.
>
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