We need a good mixmaster net. working remailer: 1. Average latency less than 5 min 2. Operator probably trustworthy 3. Less than 1 message dropped per 100,000 handled Phase I: 10 working remailers Phase II: 100 working remailers Phase III: 1000 working remailers It is permissible to redesign and reimplement to achieve these goals. Comments welcome.
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Anonymous wrote:
1. Average latency less than 5 min
Bad: traffic analysis. Latency (via delay) should be random between two set points. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 08:13 PM, <measl@mfn.org> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Anonymous wrote:
1. Average latency less than 5 min
Bad: traffic analysis. Latency (via delay) should be random between two set points.
Depends on traffic rates. If fewer than 10 messages per hour, then 5 minutes delay ("latency") is obviously not diffusive enough. If more than 100 messages per hour, then 5 minutes gives a diffusivity or fanout of about 10, which is a useful amount. Think diffusivity, not latency. --Tim May
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
Depends on traffic rates. If fewer than 10 messages per hour, then 5 minutes delay ("latency") is obviously not diffusive enough. If more than 100 messages per hour, then 5 minutes gives a diffusivity or fanout of about 10, which is a useful amount.
Think diffusivity, not latency.
--Tim May
Absolutely correct. I was looking microcosmically, rather than macrocosmically - doh! Just as an aside, I find a 10/hour rate to be pretty unlikely when you consider chaff (which is a great deal of the actual traffic). -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
Anonymous wrote:
We need a good mixmaster net. working remailer: 1. Average latency less than 5 min 2. Operator probably trustworthy 3. Less than 1 message dropped per 100,000 handled Phase I: 10 working remailers Phase II: 100 working remailers Phase III: 1000 working remailers
And "we" (whoever that is) need traffic, traffic, traffic. A good mixmaster net importantly includes lots of source address and exit addresses. Each of which plausibly is generating or consuming real content. The best chaff is somebody else's real email not some PRNG-driven bot output.
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