At 11:31 PM 5/21/96, David E. Smith wrote:

Unless Alice will automatically rotate between some random set of Bob1, Bob2, Bob3... It also wouldn't be too difficult to set up a message that goes through several points before emerging at a randomly-chosen exitpoint, including a completely independent remailer.

Sure, Alice can always herself add remailer steps. I explicitly mentioned this in my message last night, when I wrote: "(Hal, to use him as the example, could start using his own choice of remailer hops to accomplish much the same result. We've talked about this for a long time, too...." But this is just using more remailers. We know this works. What Mark Grant was suggesting was something different, a kind of "disposable final emanation point," designed to go away easily under legal pressures. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."