At 10:36 AM 5/21/96, Adam Shostack wrote:

Lance Cottrell wrote: | | An interesting problem with anonymous postage is that it is likely to kill | cover traffic generators. |

Postage is most needed at the point of delivery.

That is the node that will be taking the heat/paying the lawyers. I'd operate a remailer if I was never the last node, becuase I don't have a site that can take the heat/seizure of machines for me. If we pay those final nodes to do more, than intermediate nodes can still carry cover traffic for free.

Adam

-- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

This is true. It is also something which would be easy to build into Mixmaster. The Message payload has a much looser format than the rest of the message. The postage could simply be prepended to the subject and destination fields (which are already variable length). Time to actually look at the API :) -Lance ---------------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell loki@obscura.com PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Mixmaster, the next generation remailer, is now available! http://www.obscura.com/~loki/Welcome.html or FTP to obscura.com "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche ----------------------------------------------------------