Since it was posted twice I guess I can reply twice :-) On Wed, 3 Aug 1994, Jidan wrote:
for total anon post/mail How workable is setting up remailers with psudo-cooperation so that when it recieves an anon mail it waits 20 or so min and then randomly sends copies of it to 5 other remailers of which the original reciever randomly decides which 1 of the 6 will post and the rest simply discard. a 5 fold increase in traffic will make it harder to analize if 80% is just noise
This scheme wouldn't be workable in the currently fragile and ephemeral net of remailers. They would have to spend a lot of time talking to each other and making sure that they all had up-to-date lists of valid remailers. That's too much of a burden to put on the net.philanthropists that are currently operating mailing lists. Any validation of a chained remailer pathway is up to the user (not exactly *caveat emptor* cause you ain't paying for anything, but you get the idea) C. J. Leonard ( / "DNA is groovy" \ / - Watson & Crick <cjl@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> / \ <-- major groove ( \ Finger for public key \ ) Strong-arm for secret key / <-- minor groove Thumb-screws for pass-phrase / )