On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:
However this is going on other peoples information. I don't have any figures for how widespread the practice of configuring news to ignore cancels is.
Ditto. We'd have to assume that it's pretty widespread to avoid these problems.
To do it properly, you'll need a local eternity server if you want to good security of encrypted documents.
I'd assume that in the end this is what most people would do; get a Usenet feed and run a server locally so that noone knows which URLs you're accessing.
Turn of logs, and introduce forward secrecy into mixmaster. Easy to do. Why don't we have it yet? (Ulf? Lance?)
Then you have as true security as you can get from a digital mix with the parameters mixmaster has.
That's not what I meant; I'm assuming that the mixmaster chain is pretty secure. The problem is that when the government find 'nuclear terrorist money-laundering kiddie drug porn' on the Eternity server they can trace it back to the original Usenet message and then go after the remailer operator who posted it. Making the remailers disposable or setting them up in free countries would work, but I'd prefer a technical solution. Mark