Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru at cpcnet.com

Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin] erc at dal1820.computek.net
Fri Jan 12 23:50:45 PST 1996


> The remailer could calculate a hash for the body of each encrypted
> message received (the same portion which will be decrypted by PGP),
> tabulate the last few thousand hashes, and simply discard any messages
> with a duplicate hash.  The target of the attack would receive only
> the first copy of the message.

That wouldn't keep the mailer from getting choked up pretty quickly, 
though, especially if it's on the end of a < T1 line.
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