At 12:22 PM 12/16/2001 +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Steve Schear wrote:

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During your "rant" on re-mailers I mentioned the desirability of using popular P2P services in conjunction with remailers, possibly as middleman nodes. Len pointed out the problems with re-mailer system stability if P2P clients were used as they come and go. During the break there was a short

P2P nodes are ephemeral, the content is not. A short message hop from node to node is in the second range. Assuming the message doesn't sit on the node too long (running danger of it being pulled) and there are multiple redundant messages in transit (you wanted more idle traffic? here's is your idle traffic) the probability of delivery should be higher than the current remailers'.

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discussion of using the P2P clients to generate cover traffic on remailers. This should be simple and involve no risk to those running the clients.

Ask Google for XML-RPC and Freenet and/or Mojo Nation.

I worked with Jim on Mojo, so I have some first hand experience. The P2P systems I was referring to are the current popular crop (e.g., LimeWire and Morpheus) since they have the largest and broadest user populations. steve