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1997-06-04 - Re: Who “invented” remailers?

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Message Hash: 43a80137f5e4d810e148ecd286d8dfb67845c95176769a7f78be51072c164728
Message ID: <3.0.2.32.19970604010625.03a9313c@netcom13.netcom.com>
Reply To: <199706040027.UAA11558@muesli.ai.mit.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1997-06-04 08:15:26 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:15:26 +0800

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:15:26 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Who "invented" remailers?
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At 06:27 PM 6/3/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>(There are important issues, discussed by several of us several years ago,
>and more recently by Wei Dai and Lucky Green, dealing with correlation
>analysis of messages sent and messages received...esentially pattern
>analysis.

This type of analysis is unlikely to provide useful results for
high-latency systems such as remailers. However, this analysis can be very
fruitful on near real time systems such as ill-designed chained http
anonymizers.

[Tim of course knows this, I just want to make sure that this is
universally understood.]


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