From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 17:38:51 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Long-Lived Remailers
Message-ID: <199605220513.WAA14446@netcom8.netcom.com>
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At  4:07 PM 5/21/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>Sure, Alice can always herself add remailer steps. I explicitly mentioned
>this in my  message last night, when I wrote: "(Hal, to use him as the
>example, could start using his own choice of remailer hops to accomplish
>much the same result. We've talked about this for a long time, too...."
>
>But this is just using more remailers. We know this works. What Mark Grant
>was suggesting was something different, a kind of "disposable final
>emanation point," designed to go away easily under legal pressures.

Ideally the final emanation point will be epherimal indeed.  Perhaps only a
few minutes or an hour or two.  That will protect Alice against attacks of
the form, "I sent something to Alice and it was posted from the same place
as that attack on my dictitorial rule."


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