Grady Ward, over on alt.security.pgp/sci.crypt posted a little something to the effect (I'm paraphrasing, here) that sending a couple meg of random noise/bytes to an out-of-U.S. person/site would probably be a Good Thing To Do. The idea is that if each of us were to send out something like an encrypted list of insults/profanity/noise, then the occasional *real* message/file wouldn't stand out so much (plus have the added benefit of screwing with the system in general). I realize that this is just fundamental traffic analysis, but going through the list of remailers I've got, I could see only a single non-U.S. (or at least, clearly identifiable as such) site. Would it be completely out of line to ask if any of our non-US/Canada (or Canada/US, if you prefer :-) subscribers would make available some kind of Email drop to facilitate such activity? It wouldn't have to be terribly responsive, I wouldn't think - simply redirecting the appropriately addressed mail to the bitbucket would be fine for the most part. The Really Motivated might take the file, rotate it left or right a bit, and XOR it with the original of itself and send it back in some variable number of chunks (or multiplied by 1/2 pi, or..... anyway, you get the idea). Incidental question: do the anon remailers do anything to erase any 'ghost' images of data that has gone through them? I mean, after they've forwarded a message, do they do anything like wipe the scratch files, or overwrite them with random data, or some similar bit-scrambling? Or is the traffic high enough that such measures don't have to be specifically invoked? Dave Merriman - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PGP Public Key Fingerprint for David K. Merriman <merriman@metronet.com> PGP 2.6ui fingerprint = 1E 97 E6 0F E0 EA D8 FE 0E C3 DC A7 F9 A5 06 66