From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:00:50 +0800
To: cryptography@c2.net
Subject: Re: Zero-Knowledge Freedom AnonymousIP Whitepaper
Message-ID: <199812270425.FAA12203@replay.com>
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> Zero-Knowledge has put up a draft of a whitepaper explaining the technical
> details of it's coming Freedom Internet Privacy system.
> 
> The paper discusses the technical details of our AnonymousIP protocol and
> our Pseudonymous E-mail System.
> 
> This is an early draft and comments/questions are appreciated.

Have algorithms been chosen? If I understand right, letting different users use
different algos would make some users' messages look different from others
while bouncing around in the network. I don't think anyone even suspects
3DES and a KEA cognate would fail.

The "topologically close" tradeoff (i.e, a gain in performance for an
unmeasured loss in security) seems to be more exploit-bait than optimization;
it might be wiser not to enable this part of automatic route selection by
default unless/until its effects on security are investigated more thoroughly.
At least give me a while to make an attack on it. :)

> 
> People familiar with Mixmaster, PipeNet, Cypherpunk Remailers and Onion
> Routing will find this whitepaper to address many of the same problems with
> regards to Internet Anonymity & Privacy.
> 
> The paper is available at http://www.zks.net/products/whitepapers.asp
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Austin
> 
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Austin Hill                                   Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc.
> President                                                Montreal, Quebec
> Phone: 514.286.2636 Ext. 226                            Fax: 514.286.2755
> E-mail: austin@zks.net                                 http://www.zks.net
> 
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> 
> PGP Fingerprints
> 2.6.3i = 3F 42 A2 0D AF 78 20 ED  A2 BB AD BE 8B 40 5E 64
> 5.5.3i = 77 1E 62 21 B3 F0 EB C0  AA 6C 65 30 56 CA BA C4 94 26 EC 00
> keys available at
> http://www.nai.com/products/security/public_keys/pub_key_default.asp
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