Hi Mark, Forwarded message:
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 16:21:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com> Subject: Re: Quickremail v1.0b
At 17:28 1996-05-27 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
I'm planning on starting up a remailer, probably on Lance's machine (to take advantage of his expertise) sometime this summer. I do want to get PGP for the VAX before then, and the MIT site doesn't appear to have this code.
Why would anyone set up a remailer at Lance's (or Sameer's) machine? They have remailers running already. If the thugs break root and obtain one remailer key from a machine, they probably get all the keys on that machine, compromising all the remailers in one single attack. Or am I missing something? Is there any benefit of multiple remailers on a machine where root is running his own remailer?
It's better than nothing. And besides, the more remailers there are, the more difficult it is to do traffic analysis on remailer traffic. Actually, its the more remailers people chain messages through, but there are software packages that can do this easily. The more remailers there are, the longer remailer chains have the possibility of becoming.
If this is strictly true, why not simply run several instances of a remailer on the same machine. Then randomly chain them prior to sending them off site. This would be a lot cheaper and faster than trying to convince hobbyist to set it up or businesses to to use their profit & legal council. Jim Choate