-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199502011911.OAA09754@bwnmr5.bwh.harvard.edu>, Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:

Its awfully expensive to send messages all over creation so one person can read them. Much better to send it to the person who wants to read it. Besides, USENET propagation can be slower than remailers; the far ends of the chain can often take around a week.

1. Let's have some perspective here. Remailer traffic can't really be expected to exceed the traffic in, for example, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica. Additionally, with USENET it's trivial to control when are whether you receive particular groups. Don't want to carry alt.anonymous.remailer.channel? No problem. Don't. 2. USENET propogation is not that slow; Between well connected sites (IE, just about any Internet host that isn't swamped for other reasons like Netcom frequently is) I haven't seen a larger lag than a few hours. The biggest reason to use remailers is not to avoid interception of traffic: that's a trivial problem with PGP. The biggest threat is that of traffic analysis: Alice doesn't want her boss Charlie to know she's having an ongoing discussion with Bob about a new "career opportunity." As I've said, I think USENET is perfect for this. Add some reordering to the processing and a hidden way to define the intended recipients and no way that passive traffic analysis is going to succeed. - - -- Todd Masco | "Schooling serves to reduce the risk of being eaten." cactus@hks.net | - Scientific American, June, 1982 Cactus' Homepage - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLy+w1xNhgovrPB7dAQFjcgQAqc6eu22NAB8wE5iAyyGMTFbwlXLbiHF0 FUmJlWXQ4J8EkPXEa+ZUKGlcbCETjQ2rXxzHh3cOiVxjRVnKKh5Q/VmU4JOALPXE lBIfH+W8ty0LxaXBue9KkXh4cFvoehW7UXhq9oitNgSqiTmf/EoCbjJc5A7w7YHd Aqu7sgyyPFQ= =4UNd - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLy/p3CoZzwIn1bdtAQGkNgGAtR+F+nkckmLHgvrlurrHsGng24kdBu4R 20AwntDjdEcZjNHAqrc/aCf8TKVhUUJV =o09G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----