From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 15:09:23 +0800
To: qut@netcom.com (Dave Harman)
Subject: Re: Virtual machines?
Message-ID: <9605201823.AA00349@cti02.citenet.net>
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On 20 May 96 at 2:32, Dave Harman wrote:


> ! Is there a way to have a remailer de-localize itself and
> ! relocalize itself over the internet?
> ! 
> ! For example, could there be several machines around the worlds
> ! that, when you send an e-mail to it, is routed to differents
> ! physical places of the world depending on where the actual
> ! remailer process is actually running?  Could there be such a thing
> ! as a virtual machine runing a remailer that gets to hop from
> ! physical machine to physical machine around the world?
> ! 
> ! Just an idea to avoid jurisdiction problems.


> This is just what crypto remailers do.
> Public key encryption with To: 's encrypted at each hop threading
> through several servors.

Just to let you know: this is *not* what I meant.  I did not speak
of the location of the message, but of the location of the
*remailer* itself.




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