using Curve p25519 cryptography for type 2(Mixmaster) and type 3(mixminion) remailer blocks
gwen hastings
gwen at cypherpunks.to
Tue Jan 14 18:17:50 PST 2014
On 1/14/14 2:30 PM, coderman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:14 PM, gwen hastings <gwen at cypherpunks.to> wrote:
>> ...
>> I am looking at resurrecting
>>
>> mixmaster, mixminion and nym.alias.net nymserver designs from the
>> various code wastebaskets and retrofit them with some newer encryption
>> technology based on curve25519 and poly-1305 libsodium based algorithms
>> and routines.
>
>
> email for private communication is a Bad Idea (TM)
> as has been thrashed over again and again,...
Actually except for map all inputs and outputs types of adversaries.. I
wont tend to agree with you.
Thing is as long as there are mailing lists and email,
remailers and nymservers will continues to be effective for personal
and political usage.
Just with rabbi(len sassman) dead(the last maintainer of the mixmaster
code) there is no one to champion same(mixmaster) or even those left
alive(nick matheson and few others(lucky,noise etc) who understand the
tech well enough to make competent changes. The type 2 remailer network
is still alive and working and new code will attract new operators and
I plan the mods to support either old format or new format(once this is
designed) type 2 and type especially in the face of the NSA
monitoring...if nothing else than as a "FUCK YOU" gesture...
The other problem is the by far and large disappearance of private email
servers where one can experiment without the upstream complaining..
mostly this is confined to university or to elderly holdouts like moi
who actually own long term persistant servers and fund their operation
privately , comcast tries very hard to block port 25 and other email
ports to force one to use only their outgoing email servers
And again anonymous type 2 and hopefully type 3 remailers and nymservers
again are useful in politics and other skulduggery(outing politicians
etc) their safety or non safety depends on ones activities and ones
tradecraft...
>
> lack of adoption implies remailer anonymity in practice denied.
>
> instead i would focus on designing and building low latency anonymous
> protocols resistant to traffic analysis and confirmation attacks.
> latency kills effective privacy!
nah been there done that for past 24 years etc..
even was one of the first 2 "persons of interest" in the cypherpunks
"movement".
anonymous remailers are much more fun and mischievous than helping one
handed morons view the latest porn at low latency.
>
>
> $0.02
>
bah humbug my .000265 btc
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