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Re: Zero-Knowledge Freedom AnonymousIP Whitepaper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wei Dai)
Mon Dec 28 15:39:17 1998
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:24:20 -0800
From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
To: austin@zks.net, cryptography@c2.net
Cc: iang@cs.berkeley.edu
In-Reply-To: <001601be3121$6f64a060$1f01a8c0@notebook.zks.net>; from Austin Hill on Sat, Dec 26, 1998 at 05:45:26PM -0500
On Sat, Dec 26, 1998 at 05:45:26PM -0500, Austin Hill wrote:
> 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.
Q: What is the first question you ask about any security protocol?
A: What is the threat model?
I can think of a couple of possible attacks against the AnonymousIP
protocol, but I can't tell if the protocol is supposed to withstand them.
Are active attacks allowed? Are attacks by someone who controls an
anonymous router allowed? Where is the threat model specified?
