Ryan Lackey writes:
I have two questions:
1) Does anyone have actual performance measurements of ZKS from when it was operational/at peak, in terms of bandwidth, MTU, latency, and jitter? Is there a good way to quantify just how far from "acceptable" it was?
I don't have any actual measurements, but as far as I can remember it worked pretty well, i.e., slower than usual but still pages would load within a few seconds. Recently I've experimented with the onion routing system at www.freehaven.net/tor, and the main problem there is slow startup times setting up the first path. Seems to take a couple of minutes sometimes for the first web page to download. I think it's struggling to find a working path, or something. But then after that the performance seems comparable to Freedom. I'm a big user of anonymity systems, and the worst problem I've had with proxies is remembering who I am supposed to be at the time. Several times with Freedom and more recently with other proxies, I have done stuff using my real name when I was in the mode where my nym was being used, and vice versa. Oops. That's a pretty big mistake to make and can totally destroy your pseudonymity, both at the time and throughout the past lifetime of the nym. What I'd like would be some kind of big, glaring indication that I am in "anonymous" mode, like overlaying some kind of color display on the screen, or maybe a crawling animation around the edges, or something. I realize that this is out of scope for most efforts of this type, but from my experience it's a big problem.
(I also subscribed the al-qaeda node, and will probably finish setting up the spamfiltered version of the list, as well as passing the back archives through the same archiving software as current archives, and search-indexing them, next time I get bored)
Making your deep archive available in search-indexed form would be a great service, as would spam-cleaning your current one. May you grow bored soon. BTW, how big is the entire CP archive when compressed? Would it fit into a gmail account that someone could set up and share the passphrase to? I'd pay quite a few bucks to have a copy of that on my disk. _______________________________________________ cypherpunks mailing list cypherpunks@cypherpunks.metacolo.com http://cypherpunks.metacolo.com/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks
On Apr 29, 2004, at 20:03, An Metet wrote:
I'm a big user of anonymity systems, and the worst problem I've had with proxies is remembering who I am supposed to be at the time. Several times with Freedom and more recently with other proxies, I have done stuff using my real name when I was in the mode where my nym was being used, and vice versa. Oops. That's a pretty big mistake to make and can totally destroy your pseudonymity, both at the time and throughout the past lifetime of the nym.
What I'd like would be some kind of big, glaring indication that I am in "anonymous" mode, like overlaying some kind of color display on the screen, or maybe a crawling animation around the edges, or something. I realize that this is out of scope for most efforts of this type, but from my experience it's a big problem.
If I recall correctly, (and it's possible I don't), the ZKS freedom.net client had features to pattern match strings (that you configure) when you were using your nym, and warn you with a popup message box when it detected them in outgoing traffic. So you could be sure you weren't inadvertently sending data that could compromise your nym (like your real name, or your other nym's names, etc). --bgt
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