-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bill Stewart wrote:
Latency is essential to security, though high volume reduces the latency that's needed to get a given level of security.
Latency may be a means to get security in the current remailer design, but it is a means to the end and not the end itself. This doesn't mean we shouldn't use latency to get security, but it is undesirable, like using cinderblocks for construction. The reason I point this out is that it is important to separate design choices to achieve a goal from the goal itself. If we had a remailer network in which each customer had a constant bandwidth connection to one or more remailers, you could have zero latency mail. (Actually, this would be nice to use with those Comsec phones.) It is my understanding that serious naval vessels like aircraft carriers use constant bandwidth channels to defeat traffic analysis. That is, to every place they might wish to communicate, they continuously broadcast encrypted information. Most of the time the channel is empty, of course, but nobody outside can tell when. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNDHpnZaWtjSmRH/5AQF2Awf6AoTd0EnojWRoLGsTqVgkZdirRWqFcNNk nYE7Eh455GxPPfsapn/Q811cmzflrC6TUE6sY0sga/hdpQy4IgPsgRDnC5d+LCWR gO8CEwGXkd6Gl3DEduIL2k7eKeuXoZqK1VVgcEnY4Vsci4yJhcl/FLOx5yGcEVNM 850LGQz/PgEg1XhoMpeOkSBh7vtX+nMOyENzALwf11sg/64tKRCCTHfqgfKSn1tC IT6yrZ2NqUvMPxbomZ4U9DPsc0oz0TggrqHQneNWw1lYjzPDpXRn8jiSlalTZcFs kYFeyQQbw23e0Y/Qevtjn8/QngF/4BcyC21mPxaz35U1EwiFV0Lp/Q== =tfWS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----