minion-design.pdf / low bandwidth high latency long term connections

[Punk - Stasi 2.0]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:03:59 +1100
Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 06:58:57PM -0300, Punk - Stasi 2.0 wrote:
> > 
> > 	courtesy of tor scum dingledine and matheson and a GCHQ guy, danezis who now works for facebook-NSA as well. Wait, facebook, nsa, gchq, university of london, etc so many aliases for the same mafia. 
> > 
> > 
> > 	anyway :  https://www.mixminion.net/minion-design.pdf
> 
> Have not begun to read that yet, 

	there's a good deal of handwaving bullshit in there 

"The adversary can delay messages...The efficacy of this attack is poorly understood, but
it may well be quite damaging" 

	so they admit that their own fucking system is 'poorly understood' by their own fucking selves and may be 'quite damaged' - well I guess that's at least half honest. 


"Dummy traffic is an old approach to improving anonymity, but its efficacy is still not well analyzed." 

	oh really? 

"We need stronger intuition about how to use dummy messages."

	...stronger...intuition...?

"While many people have speculated about the benefits of dummy traffic, we have not yet seen any  convincing analysis." 
	....


"Exit attacks - Use the mix network to send hate mail" 
"ISPs do not tolerate systems that potentially deliver hate mail" 


	...'hate mail'? agents of the child murdering pentagon like dingledine are worried about 'hate mail'...?


	bottom line for me is that the system is (a lot) more complex than I expected - and doesn't seem too reliable either. 


	The 'acknowledgments' section is kinda 'intersting' too....

	cohen and 'zooko' wilcox get mentioned and..."We further thank all the unnamed cypherpunks out there who have worked on remailer issues for the past decades." 


	isn't the collaboration between 'cypherpunks' and the pentagon quite touching.