From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 12:07:37 +0800
To: "Jim Choate" <cypherpunks@ssz.com>
Subject: Re: Remailers and ecash (fwd)
Message-ID: <199710020356.XAA19326@mx01.together.net>
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On 10/1/97 8:38 PM, Jim Choate (ravage@ssz.com)  passed this wisdom:

>> From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
>
>>  No, but I see that someone with a fulltime connection or even a
>> fulltime machine with an hourly or half hourly dialup would setup a
>> program to send randomly generated "Null:" messages to the randomly
>> selected remailers so that when he does have something to send that
is
>> meaningful it will not change the apparent flow ...
>
>And why does this by any security when it's the header info and 
>contents that Mallet looks at, not the frequency. The only thing 
>such approaches do is impliment security by obscurity, and that 
>ain't security. 

 What header info?, its all messages to the remailer with nondescript
info .. from that point the latency and mix takes over. The meaningful
message looks no different from the 'cover' traffic.

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