An NSA operative with the code name 'tcmay@got.net' wrote...
Let's call the first site "Alice" and the emanation site "Bob."
That is, all messages sent to the persistent site Alice appear to come from the site Bob.
The Church of Clams can simply send messages addressed to themselves through the Alice remailer and see immediately that they appear to come from Bob.
Unless Alice will automatically rotate between some random set of Bob1, Bob2, Bob3... It also wouldn't be too difficult to set up a message that goes through several points before emerging at a randomly-chosen exitpoint, including a completely independent remailer. Actually, there's an Idea. Set up a single address; use added headers in the style of: :: Remailers-To-Chain: 7 Remailers-To-Avoid: remailer@nsa.gov Final-Destination: tcmay@got.net Each remailer could construct a message that decrements the remailers counter, preserving the other headers. The usual caveat on encrypting at each step would apply; but since remailers' pubkeys are available, that's a trivial concern. A lot more could be done with this general concept. One immediate problem is that the frontend address is a target, even though it can't be obviously connected to any objectionable messages. Packet sniffing is always a concern, etc etc... Flame away. dave ---- David Smith Box 324 Cape Girardeau MO USA 63702 http://www.prairienet.org/~dsmith dsmith@prairienet.org Reality is only for those lacking in true imagination... Send mail w/'send pgp-key' in subject for PGP public key