The Crisis with Remailers

[Lance Cottrell]

At 10:36 AM 5/21/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
>Lance Cottrell wrote:
>|
>| An interesting problem with anonymous postage is that it is likely to kill
>| cover traffic generators.
>|
>
>Postage is most needed at the point of delivery.
>
>That is the node that will be taking the heat/paying the lawyers.  I'd
>operate a remailer if I was never the last node, becuase I don't have
>a site that can take the heat/seizure of machines for me.  If we pay
>those final nodes to do more, than intermediate nodes can still carry
>cover traffic for free.
>
>Adam
>
>--
>"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
>                                                       -Hume


This is true. It is also something which would be easy to build into
Mixmaster. The Message payload has a much looser format than the rest of
the message. The postage could simply be prepended to the subject and
destination fields (which are already variable length). Time to actually
look at the API :)

        -Lance

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