From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:19:36 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Quickremail v1.0b
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On Tue, 28 May 1996, Matts Kallioniemi wrote:

> At 17:28 1996-05-27 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
> >I'm planning on starting up a remailer, probably on Lance's machine (to
> >take advantage of his expertise) sometime this summer. I do want to get PGP
> >for the VAX before then, and the MIT site doesn't appear to have this code.
> 
> Why would anyone set up a remailer at Lance's (or Sameer's) machine?
> They have remailers running already. If the thugs break root and obtain
> one remailer key from a machine, they probably get all the keys on that
> machine, compromising all the remailers in one single attack. Or am I
> missing something? Is there any benefit of multiple remailers on a machine
> where root is running his own remailer?

It's better than nothing.  And besides, the more remailers there are, the
more difficult it is to do traffic analysis on remailer traffic.  Actually,
its the more remailers people chain messages through, but there are software
packages that can do this easily.  The more remailers there are, the longer
remailer chains have the possibility of becoming.

- -- Mark

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