Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 22:43:46 PDT From: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal Finney) Message-Id: <9310200543.AA22959@jobe.shell.portal.com.shell.portal.com> Subject: Re: JUDGMENT PROOFING
This is exactly what anonymous remailers are for - to defeat traffic analysis. The goal is a situation where you, and everyone else, receives and sends out a bunch of encrypted traffic every day. There will be no way a snooper can find out exactly what you are reading, what you are writing, or whom you are communicating with. That's what I call private.
To really defeat traffic analysis you also have to remove any information from volume of traffic. If I don't know any message routing but I do know that cme sent 10 MB of traffic and you received 10 MB of traffic and the other 30 people on the anon subnet dealt with only 100B each, .... So: have everyone send and receive exactly the same size message to/from the same sites at the same time every day. - Carl