From: IN%"matts@pi.se" "Matts Kallioniemi" 28-MAY-1996 06:08:28.40
Why would anyone set up a remailer at Lance's (or Sameer's) machine? They have remailers running already. If the thugs break root and obtain one remailer key from a machine, they probably get all the keys on that machine, compromising all the remailers in one single attack. Or am I missing something? Is there any benefit of multiple remailers on a machine where root is running his own remailer?
Well, the advantages are: A. I get Lance's help more quickly in setting up this one, so I can later go to other machines (preferably out of the country) and set things up the same way there (getting Mixmaster from an out-of-US source, of course); and B. supporting the efforts of Sameer, Lance, et al by paying them some money. While multiple ISPs are certainly preferable (to avoid one rubber-hose (e.g., law enforcement) breaking from getting everything), your argument assumes that all the machines at a given ISP are linked together such that if one is broken, the rest are - which isn't very good from a security standpoint, so I'd hope it _isn't_ the case.
The vax pgp is available at ftp://ftp.net-connect.net/pub/cypherpunks/pgp/vaxpgp262.tar.Z
Thanks, -Allen