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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:32:14 -0600 From: A Player To Be Named Later <aptbnl@dev.null> Subject: Re: Remailer latencies

And, since you asked, would it not be in the interests of remailer operators to have a script which would generate random text, encrypt it to various remailers and send it out as 'cover traffic'? It would seem to me that this would be particularly valuable for the remailers that receive the least amount of traffic.

This aspect of traffic cover is more complex than it at first seems. Take for example the second simplest model that I am aware of. For each email that comes in n bogus emails go out with one remailed copy. So for each email we receive we end up processing n+2 emails. Since to be useful n must be reasonably larger than 2 to be effective we are left with a quandry. As we process more traffic (ie become successful) we find our bandwidth need growing at a linear rate of n, unfortunately the skills and resources to support this increase also get larger as we become more successful. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|