At 6:05 PM 11/24/95, s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca wrote:

Watch the cpunks go round and round and round and...

On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Gary Jeffers wrote:

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I know little of the theory of Dining Cryptographers but I would think that a good implementation of it would make infiltrators useless. I will leave it for other Cypherpunks to discuss the mechanics (specific and general) for actually doing this.

Dining Cryptographers nets (aka DC-nets) are the whole idea behind the type 2 anon remailers like Mixmaster, and the remailernet in general. You'll find a lot on this in the archives, the ftp site (which has Chaum's DC article and a good explanation by Tim May) and a few peoples' pages. (I think they're mostly pointed to in the pages I list)

I wish this were the case. Mixmaster is not based on the "Dining Cryptographers" problem, but based on Chaum's "Digital Mixes". Digital mixes hide the fact that A is communicating with B. DC nets allow an individual A in a group of people A' to send a message so that it is impossible to tell who in the group sent it (but it is known to have been one of the members of A'). -Lance ---------------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell loki@obscura.com PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Mixmaster, the next generation remailer, is now available! http://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 ----------------------------------------------------------