Remailer ideas (Was: Re: Latency vs. Reordering)
Jonathan Rochkind
jrochkin at cs.oberlin.edu
Sun Aug 7 11:47:10 PDT 1994
> What I think is a better idea was proposed here last year, and I think
> someone was doing it for a while. It is for someone to volunteer to
> be the keeper of the remailer aliveness information. He runs scripts
> every day to ping the remailers, keeps lists of which remailers are
> currently active, and so on.
This does seem like a better idea, except for one thing:
Everybody has got to trust the Keeper of the Aliveness Info.
I'm not sure how much of a problem this is, nor am I sure that
the newsgroup method neccesitates any less trust.
But I do think that a system where all trust doesn't lie in any
one entity is desirable, and I think that such a system is going
to have to be decentralized like netnews, rather then centralized
. The other problem that a centralized system imposes is that if
the Keeper Of Aliveness Info goes down, everyone is scrambling to
find a new one. This doesn't seem like a major problem, but again, an
ideal system wouldn't have this flaw.
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