On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Anonymous wrote:
Nonsense. Type 1 remailers offer a certain level of security. It is suitable for many applications. Type 1 remailers require a fairly determined attacker to thwart. They would certainly keep you safe from the IRS, but maybe not the NSA.
Even if you were running a child kidnapping ring and failing to report the income, you would be pretty safe using Type 1 remailers. The NSA would never take the chance of revealing their capabilities just to save a few kids.
I disagree. The entire Type 1 networks can be trivially analyzed. It doesn't require an NSA for this. A single person that understands mixes and a few hackers to compromise some of the upstream, downstream servers, not even the remailers themselves, could do it. Type 1 remailers are fun toys. No more. -- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"