JAP was back doored by court order. It was a forced upgrade (after a service interruption) to monitor "one site" that continues to be
Still useful to protect against third party eavesdroppers, I guess. Short of onion routing, are there any other services like that around, apart from the likes of anonymizer.com ? I've been using JAP for some time, but mainly to hide my IP from visited sites. Guess I'll keep on using it. I'm on Win32 BTW, as headers indicate. I'm at work, too paranoid to access Internet from my own Unix box ;) -- Vincent Penquerc'h
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
Still useful to protect against third party eavesdroppers, I guess.
Could it be at least somehow useful as a part of some bigger scheme, a layer of a cake? Can a distributed multilayered proxy be built with some less-than-trusted components?
Short of onion routing, are there any other services like that around, apart from the likes of anonymizer.com ?
On another note, the Sobig worm is de facto a distributed network of proxy servers, though primarily designed for sending spam. Could it be of any use for web? According to some sources it should be able to proxy a plethora of protocols.
At 05:54 AM 8/22/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
Still useful to protect against third party eavesdroppers, I guess.
Could it be at least somehow useful as a part of some bigger scheme, a layer of a cake? Can a distributed multilayered proxy be built with some less-than-trusted components?
For this kind of system, I think it's really hard to get much security from the people at the endpoints of the chain of anonymizers. Specifically, if the attacker has control of both the entry and exit anonymizer, or if he has control of, say, a target site and the entry anonymizer, he can pretty reliably unmask the user's identity with just a few minutes of browsing. Wei Dai discussed this idea several years ago, and I later reinvented the same idea. --John Kelsey, kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259
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