Reordering, not Latency (Was: Re: Remailer)
Paul J. Ste. Marie
pstemari at erinet.com
Thu Jan 26 16:28:31 PST 1995
At 09:10 PM 1/25/95, Michael Handler wrote:
> ... I have literally hundreds of messages archived from the CP list of
>several months back where Eric Hughes repeatedly states that reordering,
>not latency, is the key. Reordering of a sufficient magnitude will
>introduce latency inherently. Otherwise you are still vulnerable to
>traffic analysis (which is an art, not a science, remember).
The headache with reordering of that sort is that you can't reply to a
message until you've seen the message you're replying to. There's a certain
level of ordering that can't be changed.
--Paul J. Ste. Marie
pstemari at well.sf.ca.us, pstemari at erinet.com
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