Remailer Phases

[Tim May]

On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 08:13 PM, <measl at mfn.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Anonymous wrote:
>
>>   1. Average latency less than 5 min
>
> Bad: traffic analysis.  Latency (via delay) should be random between two
> set points.

Depends on traffic rates. If fewer than 10 messages per hour, then 5 
minutes delay ("latency") is obviously not diffusive enough. If more 
than 100 messages per hour, then 5 minutes gives a diffusivity or fanout 
of about 10, which is a useful amount.

Think diffusivity, not latency.

--Tim May