Remailer traffic analysis foiling

[cjl]

Since it was posted twice I guess I can reply twice :-)

On Wed, 3 Aug 1994, Jidan wrote:
> for total anon post/mail
> How workable is setting up remailers with psudo-cooperation
> so that when it recieves an anon mail it waits 20 or so min
> and then randomly sends copies of it to 5 other remailers of which
> the original reciever randomly decides which 1 of the 6 will post 
> and the rest simply discard. 
>   a 5 fold increase in traffic will make it harder to analize if
> 80% is just noise

This scheme wouldn't be workable in the currently fragile and ephemeral 
net of remailers.  They would have to spend a lot of time talking to each 
other and making sure that they all had up-to-date lists of valid 
remailers.  That's too much of a burden to put on the net.philanthropists
that are currently operating mailing lists.

Any validation of a chained remailer pathway is up to the user (not 
exactly *caveat emptor* cause you ain't paying for anything, but you get 
the idea)

 
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