CDR: Re: Anonymous Remailers cpunk

Steve Furlong sfurlong at acmenet.net
Tue Oct 3 14:46:24 PDT 2000


Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Trei, Peter wrote:
> 
> > I would like to suggest that a remailer could eliminate nearly all it's
> > problems by only sending out encrypted mails - that is, if after
> > removing the encryption that was applied using it's own private
> > key, it finds that the result is plaintext, it simply drops the message.
> 
> And just exactly what algorithm is that you're using to determine
> crypt-v-plaintext?

Why not just read the first 20 bytes of the body? If 90% or more aren't
printable ASCII assume the message is encrypted.

SRF

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