Herb Sutter comments on Modemac's proposal, At 04:58 10.18.1995 -0700, Modemac wrote: > 1) A person writes a message and encrypts it with PGP. Using a set public key? Which would mean the remailers all share the same pub/pri key pair (or pieces thereof)? You'll have to come up with a good way of maintaining this secret, since if you're not careful it could be compromised by something as simple as an attacker's trying to attach a new remailer to the remailer group or physically attack any existing remailer. But using a shared key isn't necessary. Each remailer can have it's own key. The message can be encrypted using PGP's function of encrypting with multiple public keys. PGP versions 2.63ui and 2.6.3i, now under development, will even have the ability to encrypt to a whole -file- of keys, one key per line. Message senders can use all the scanning remailer keys, or some subset. Scanners will either skip over or forward msgs they can't decrypt. Also keep in mind that under this first layer of encryption is just the address of another remailer, which could, in turn, either forward to another remailer, or back to the anon newsgroup. --- edgar@HighNRG.sbay.org Keep Freestyle Alive!