Remailers and ecash

Wed Oct 1 17:23:31 PDT 1997

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On 10/1/97 5:03 AM, Robert A. Costner (pooh at efga.org)  passed this
wisdom:

>At 09:59 AM 10/1/97 +0200, Anonymous (Monty Cantsin) wrote:
>>It is my understanding that serious naval vessels like aircraft
>>carriers use constant bandwidth channels to defeat traffic analysis.
>>That is, to every place they might wish to communicate, they
>>continuously broadcast encrypted information.  Most of the time the
>>channel is empty, of course, but nobody outside can tell when.
>>
>>If we had a remailer network in which each customer had a constant
>>bandwidth connection to one or more remailers, you could have zero
>>latency mail.
>
>Let me get this straight.  You are suggesting that anyone who wishes
to be
>anonymous should send a continuous 24 hour stream of low bandwidth
data to
>a central point in an effort to help keep anyone from knowing that
they
>wish to be anonymous.  
>
>While this may help correct the latency problem, how do you think
this will
>effect anonymity?  Do you think that by sending a continuos stream of
data
>to the remailer, the sender will be less identifiable?

 No, but I see that someone with a fulltime connection or even a
fulltime machine with an hourly or half hourly dialup would setup a
program to send randomly generated "Null:" messages to the randomly
selected remailers so that when he does have something to send that is
meaningful it will not change the apparent flow ...

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