Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal

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. This method could also be expanded with two more equal parts that transform the origional two parts into two different messages unrelated to the origional message.