Foiling Traffic Analysis

[Timothy C. May]

At 4:35 AM 1/2/96, Jon Lasser wrote:

>The potential for traffic analysis is the danger here. If an "FBI
>International Data Laundering Expert" testifies in court that said data
>came from a site known to be frequented solely by so-and-sos, all the
>strong crypto in the world won't stop the average jury from convicting you.
>
>Carl Ellison (among others, I'm sure) has suggested various means of
>foiling traffic analysis among a group of trusted conspirators, using a
>token-ring-like routing scheme. I'm not completely convinced that it's
>robust enough, but a variation on it is probably adaptable.

How does this differ from Dining Cryptographers approaches?


--Tim May

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