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1997-06-25 - Re: Anonymous browsing (was Re: Getting Back to our Radical Roots)

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@bluemoney.com>
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Reply To: <3.0.1.32.19970625153558.00840200@descartes.bluemoney.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-06-25 23:04:42 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 07:04:42 +0800

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 07:04:42 +0800
To: Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@bluemoney.com>
Subject: Re: Anonymous browsing (was Re: Getting Back to our Radical Roots)
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On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Jeremey Barrett wrote:

> The trick is to design a system where an eavesdropper can't correlate
> a connection into the anonymous network to one coming out. Such a system will 
> 
> almost certainly involve some sort of "personal proxy" running on your own 
> machine. It might maintain a constant bandwidth to the anonymous network, but 
> 
> that's sub-optimal since most people like their bandwidth for other things.

The trick for users might be to move everything through the DC net. That way 
you take a max. hit of 50% loss of bandwidth. The problem would likely be 
worse for intermediate nodes. Need to think about this some more. There 
is a solution...

--Lucky

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