At 9:46 AM 9/15/95, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 8:47 AM 9/15/95, Donald M. Kitchen wrote:
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Excellent discussion on the subject, actually. However, your idea of the "first person to the bank" maintaining anonymity via remailer block is flawed. First of all, if a collusion with the bank is being taken into account, presumably sufficient enough resources are involved that someone may try and track the reply block. Mixmaster (as your messages mentioned by name) would be necessary to eliminate the chance of tracking the block through combinations of replay attacks etc. (Which reminds me, has anyone
Just to clarify a minor point, I mentioned "mixes," not Mixmaster. I have nothing against Mixmaster, but "mix" is the term Chaum invented for what we later started to call a "remailer."
--Tim May
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