In article <DGoAr7.L5s@sgi.sgi.com>, kelso@netcom.com (kelso) writes:
Hi, One method to take the heat off of the last remailer in a chain would be to call on our friend the "one time pad". A message is split into two equal parts that only make sense when the two parts are 'xor'ed together. The seperate parts are then sent through different paths to the final recepiant (or newsgroup). The reader would have to 'xor' the parts together in order to read the message. The remailer could not be blamed (as the message was unreadable to him).
The drawback is that the message would be unreadable until both pieces showed up.
No, the drawback is that then all the readers of the newsgroup would complain that this remailer was cluttering up the newsgroup with unreadable garbage. Twice. Here's another modest proposal. I note that once you've sent a message, there appears to be no way for a recipient to reply without knowing who the originator is. A simple addition to the remailer protocol would be to encrypt the message and the control information seperately. This would allow the sender of a message to provide a pre-packaged method for returning a reply. The recipient of the original message could then just blindly send his reply to the starting point remailer specified in the original message by tacking the pre-packaged routing information on to the front of his message. -- Sure we spend a lot of money, but that doesn't mean | Tom Weinstein we *do* anything. -- Washington DC motto | tomw@engr.sgi.com