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Re: Dorothy and the four Horseman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Finney)
Fri Mar 21 16:20:47 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:09:06 -0800
From: Hal Finney <hal@rain.org>
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com>
> Hal Finney writes:
> >My experience as a remailer operator suggests that we are going to have to
> >rethink how we approach internet anonymity. I believe the key may be
> >to deliver messages only to mailboxes which have voluntarily registered
> >as being willing to receive anonymous information. This won't eliminate
> >all the problems, but it would cut out > 90% of the ones we have now.
>
> If you are going to make traffic analysis so simple to perform why
> even bother pretending that anonymity is being offered. Registration
> to be a party for anonymous communication is not even worth considering.
I'm talking about the recipients of mail, not the senders. I don't see
why avoiding sending anonymous mail to people who don't want it will make
traffic analysis easier.
Hal
