From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 04:30:08 +0800
To: root@HellSpawn (Damien Lucifer)
Subject: Re: The Molson Great Web Anonymizer
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Except that Molson is doubtless doing substantial analysis of where
its users go.  Chaining is no use, since the URL gets passed in the
clear.

Web proxies will need to add encrypted URL support to do chaining.
This doesn't require anything on the browser, except SSL.  (Proper
trafic analysis prevention might require mixing of streams, which
implies delays, which amy be unacceptable for most web browsing.)

(Wei pointed this out a long time ago; real time traffic is tough to
protect.)

Adam


Damien Lucifer wrote:

| Actually, they call it the Molson Web Canadianizer, but it looks like an 
| anonymizer to me.  You give it a URL and the Canadianizer grabs the URL 
| and adds some funny canadian modifications to the page, and sends it back 
| to you.  It changes all the links to link through the canadianizer, also, 
| which is convenient. 
| 
| This page originally allowed you to specify a url, but now it seems they 
| only allow you to click and grab a random page. Specifying the address to 
| connect to in your browser will solve this though.. Heres the URL:
| 
| 
| http://www.molson.com/cgi-bin/cize?url=http://www.your.site.com/the/url
| 
| 


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