Lance Cottrell writes:

Because of the message size limitations there are some advantages to sending the mixmaster chain through some type 1 remailers first, rather than sending a type 1 message in a Mixmaster packet.

Are there any gateways that will take a (pgp-encrypted) type 1 message, with presumably some kind of headers giving onward routing information and put it into the type 2 network? Should there be such a service? I think this was discussed earlier, but Lance's statement above seems to reopen the discussion.

It is very difficult to know what fraction of the traffic I see is cover. I generate some cover traffic my self, and I know some others do as well. Right now a reordering pool of 5 messages results in a latency of about 30 min. Mixmaster is no longer a small fraction of the remailer market. A majority of all public remailers support Mixmaster.

What is the total daily volume of mixmaster traffic for all the advertised mixmasters? Has anyone measure this statistic? Regards, Richard Hodges