Re: Remailers and ecash (fwd)
Picking up a thread of a few weeks ago (sometimes life intervenes)... What I propose is: employee -> encryptor -> email -> remailer -> delivermail -> recipient -> decrypt which forces the opponent to both monitor traffic much more closely (to get around the traffic analysis-resistance of remailers) and to decrypt the actual messages. The point being to force the opponent to employ other, less safe (more chance of discovery) techniques, like bribing your employees or sending in agents as employees of the cleaning company, etc., etc. This use of remailers I think could be worth money to corporations. Unless you are a truly huge corporation, you are not going to be in a position to set up private email links with everyone you need a private email link to. Using the Internet, while deploying security measures appropriate to the application, is just too cost-effective. My proposal is just that using encryption and remailers together gives you more security than either technique will alone, perhaps enough that commercial remailers could flourish. ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on Me'"
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