[Something in the way of a test post, to see if I can get through to toad.com yet...] From: "Robert J. Woodhead" <trebor@foretune.co.jp>

Thus, the difference is that today, it's much harder to be discreet -- the encryption is a red flag. "What's he hiding?" And as any intelligence analyst can tell you, even traffic analysis can tell you a _lot_.

This is exactly what anonymous remailers are for - to defeat traffic analysis. The goal is a situation where you, and everyone else, receives and sends out a bunch of encrypted traffic every day. There will be no way a snooper can find out exactly what you are reading, what you are writing, or whom you are communicating with. That's what I call private. Hal Finney hfinney@shell.portal.com