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Re: Dorothy and the four Horseman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim McCoy)
Fri Mar 21 16:22:06 1997
In-Reply-To: <199703212012.MAA03120@crypt.hfinney.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:07:23 -0800
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com>
Cc: Hal Finney <hal@rain.org>
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.
jim
