Anonymity is much easier and much stronger in a uni-directional store and forward environment. Real time is a killer and creates all kinds of attack paths. -Lance -- Lance Cottrell loki@obscura.com
On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:13 PM, StealthMonger <StealthMonger@nym.mixmin.net> wrote:
Cypher <cypher@cpunk.us> writes:
I've been reading a lot about the need to replace email and I'm not quite sure why we're not moving to an XMPP based model.
Because it's /connection based/ and therefore low latency, so cannot be used by an untraceable pseudonym (endpoint IP packet correlation).
Contrast with email, where the security is /message based/ and can use anonymizing remailers having deliberately long, random latency.
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-- StealthMonger Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity.
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