IP: Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps (fwd)

[Eugene Leitl]

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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 06:25:51 -0400
From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
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Subject: IP: Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps

Seems like the stuff we did at UCI in the 70's under a Darpa contract djf


>Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps
>By Declan McCullagh
>
>2:00 a.m. Aug. 17, 2001 PDT
>
>Onions may be the secret ingredient in protecting the Pentagon's
>classified information.
>
>During an afternoon presentation at the Usenix Security conference on
>Thursday, a researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
>described a technology known as "Onion Routing," which preserves
>anonymity by wrapping the identity of users in onion-like layers.
>
>"Public networks are vulnerable to traffic analysis. Packet headers
>identify recipients, and packet routes can be tracked," said Paul
>Syverson, who works at the NRL's Center for High Assurance Computer
>Systems. "Even encrypted data exposes the identity of the
>communicating parties."
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46126,00.html



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