At 09:59 AM 10/1/97 +0200, Anonymous (Monty Cantsin) wrote:

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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.

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.

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

wish to be anonymous.

While this may help correct the latency problem, how do you think

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effect anonymity? Do you think that by sending a continuos stream of data to the remailer, the sender will be less identifiable?

No, but I see that someone with a fulltime connection or even a fulltime machine with an hourly or half hourly dialup would setup a program to send randomly generated "Null:" messages to the randomly selected remailers so that when he does have something to send that is meaningful it will not change the apparent flow ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNDLjFMdZgC62U/gIEQI1wgCg22mCFVbWn77DwG1CUlIRJah7oooAnic0 e0J0D1IOLP85CNvadBh9cBVA =5UGm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "First say to your self what you would be; then do what you have to do." Epictetus (35-135 A.D.)