Remailer Phases

[A. Melon]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Anonymous wrote:

> We need a good mixmaster net.
>
> working remailer:
>   1. Average latency less than 5 min

Bad. See the papers done on threats of traffic analysis/spam attacks 
against remailers.

>   2. Operator probably trustworthy

Impossible, and unnecessary. Don't assume any remops are trustworthy.

>   3. Less than 1 message dropped per 100,000 handled

This is the only goal that makes sense.