From: Mark Rogaski <wendigo@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:38:04 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks)
Subject: Workaround for filtering/cybersitter
Message-ID: <199701292043.PAA12641@deathstar.jabberwock.org>
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If I had experience with Netscape plugins and spare time, I'd
try it myself.  But here's my proposed solution.  

A plugin in Netscape intercepts all requests,  encrypt the URL
with a pubkey algorithm, encode the string base64, send it as GET input to
a proxy server.

The proxy server decodes and decrypts the URL, gets the requested page,
and returns it.  This beats out URL-based filtering.

Still need to figure out the specifics of key-exchange.  If we use
40-bit encryption, it's exportable, and it still works in our threat
model (ie. we don't care if the watchers figure out the URL a few hours
later).

To beat out dropping packets with unacceptable pattern in them, we
could use an SSL-based server as the proxy.

The plugin could even have a nice little on/off switch and a list
list of available proxies.

mark

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