-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03102803b05829bdf10b@[207.167.93.63]>, on 10/01/97 at 09, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:
At 2:03 AM -0700 10/1/97, Robert A. Costner wrote:
Let me get this straight. You are suggesting that anyone who wishes to be anonymous should send a continuous 24 hour stream of low bandwidth data to a central point in an effort to help keep anyone from knowing that they wish to be anonymous.
He was describing how a constant-traffic pipe defeats "sudden burst of activity" types of traffic analysis. (As, for example, when nightime activity in the White House is signalled by deliveries of lots of pizzas.)
In Ian Slater's book Showdown such "burst activity" was put to use. In order to find where the rebel headquarters was located rummors were spread that the rebel leader was dead. Soon afterwards there was an increase in radio trafic from the headquarters in an attempt to kill the rummors thereby giving away their location as the "sudden burst of activity" stood out like a sore thumb over the normal radio traffic. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNDKH7o9Co1n+aLhhAQEITwQAh9rnbIYkX++cfXI9eT/E8Pv8y+6aUKqE qMP0NhQ7BAjg+emr2h8P2DNR0/wNtfEnsLj2PYozTYRlf+i1Qwh/V6/rBjvCUyLi 1aRPSwN09QbneeH7PgutlnNcHIyVh9+AXAgxSQEisK/N/mIpnSVXDflhu4TwFnKH 8k0QYhBefzY= =YEYR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----