Phil Fraering writes:
Why not "charge" for the ability to send an anonymous message with the duty to have for a short time (maybe an hour or two) running on your machine a node in a remailer network?
User X on Machine A sends a form via HTTP (or a variant- SHTTP, HTTPS, etc.) to Machine B. User Y on Machine C receives an anonymous mail from Machine B. Suspecting User X, User Y sends a mail to be anonymized and sent back to himself to User X. User X's temporary remailer does as it's told. User Y
I forgot to add. There is no reason User X has to run his remailer immediately. His software could simply commit to running a remailer for 1 hour at some specified future date < some threshold. Any messages sent to him for remailing would be queued until that time. Therefore, all your technique would tell you is that the user remailed a message sometime between date X and date Y. if Y-X > few days to week or two, the intelligence gathered on User X is miniscule. Traffic analysis would detect User X using the remailer network anyway. -Ray