-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- According to Raph's remailer stats, the remailers have widely varying latencies. Given that only a few remailers have latencies which are acceptably low, the list of usable remailers is quite low. If the user of the remailer, Monty Cantsin for example, signs his messages, a fairly accurate measure of total transit time is obtained. The total transit time gives clues to the remailers which were actually used in the chain. In an of itself, this may not comprise the user, but combined with other weaknesses it will cause the attacker to be significantly more confident of identification hypotheses. The remailers should all have about the same latency. 0 seconds seems like a good Schelling point. What would it take to reduce remailer latency to under 60 seconds for most of the remailers? Do people need old 486s to dedicate to the task? Do they need money? Better software? If you operate a remailer, please tell us what you need to make it really work well. Perhaps the rest of us can help make it happen. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNCrG4paWtjSmRH/5AQFuAAf+ID6TSjoUV1sVehzW6DoqVXREyO/fR4Uw H+W6QCiTOQaRhTD1Z6WSaL9FOaBJ5aSHCdLzKy9eIvagXsYR+eqVBdO0oSuDaloc BYSN+QXSKvMEuEotkCF4RicRoENlTmD0Qcrz4KvvW+d+jRxyxejs9O0HqDeTq9y/ KpBtq8CytpEMmGc6VSHuAX90qwJTtHUk/k4ulXU7v4xMmBLu1HpS/9M5h7mooybC 8qwVJKswAMI4wTB5FlBj/+b8txkCzMdqJkFdLEYu+LAGZfkB96W9uRU+eGekCHY2 6iycxv+m4r7wXPbP9A83Y6UnP4nkZBW86y7Du8NjVWGpscCfNjFF3g== =QjE1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----