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Actually, the odds are better than this, .8^5, about 0.33. You will be compromised "only" 1/3 of the time.
But if you are sending regular messages to another party, then traffic analysis will quickly show that you are communicating, because even if the boys at Langley are really dumb, you won't make send more than two or three messages without having all the cherries lining up.
You will be protected if you have encrypted your messages, but using a remailer network offers little additional protection.
-- Jim Dixon
I am not sure I see why you think that the "cherries" will line up. If one has the two honest remailers in the chain, then the only information the TLA has is that you sent a message, and the other person received one of the N messages in the labyrinth. N is the number of messages sent which could have been the received message (this is proportional to the number of messages in being reordered). It all depends on how big N is. Given the current traffic load, I suspect you are correct. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLksoL1Vkk3dax7hlAQFf2wP9EqXHQxpYZXs09oTR84CYKKZ0NFdv/rbj 6X7CpP1luGC41LDNZ0jaKJHlsNA8akULf6Q79mZ53lKqrUOREDQp5lz8j3LKU0G9 EXmvM1P10c9dAcTvrWPei+TyzZgc2PzM1By57u5hAomCoiuGHjSJEpWNJa8qGwYc CO3a7/0SyaI= =AeYf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell who does not speak for CASS/UCSD loki@nately.ucsd.edu PGP 2.3 key available by finger or server. "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche