At 09:04 AM 4/29/98 -0700, David Honig wrote:
Why does the Navy research onion routing?
Only reason I can think of is so that .mil can study other sites anonymously, or communicate amongst themselves using anonymous-routing-tech to avoid traffic analysis.
The other practical possibility is that they're happy to have smart CS people and will fund whatever they want to do, just to keep them.
There is some of the latter involved, but the military does have times they'd like to check out web pages without traffic analysis, just as they'd like to be order lots of pizza without folks figuring out that they're up to something. This includes several cases - using the public or civilian-government internet, and also using their own intranets which may be less than totally secure. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639