CNN.com on Remailers

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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On 17 Dec 2001, at 21:01, Jim Choate wrote:

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> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:
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> > Typical Choate, missing the point.
>
> Merry Christmas to you too.
>
> > A remailer simply gets sent a message,
> > applies it's decryption key,
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> The same key it shares with everyone else (all users to anon_1 use the
> same key - bad!!! idea).

You know nothing about encryption.



> Allows you to build up a big library of
> plain-cypher pairs, and if you send it to yourself you can attack their
> private key as well.

No you cannot.
>
> The sender having to know all the steps is a major threat to the standard
> remailer model.

You know nothing about remailers.

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