Anonymity is much easier and much stronger in a uni-directional store and forward environment. Real time is a killer and creates all kinds of attack paths. -Lance -- Lance Cottrell [1]loki@obscura.com On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:13 PM, StealthMonger <[2]StealthMonger@nym.mixmin.net> wrote: Cypher <[3]cypher@cpunk.us> writes: I've been reading a lot about the need to replace email and I'm not quite sure why we're not moving to an XMPP based model. Because it's /connection based/ and therefore low latency, so cannot be used by an untraceable pseudonym (endpoint IP packet correlation). Contrast with email, where the security is /message based/ and can use anonymizing remailers having deliberately long, random latency. -- -- StealthMonger Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity. Key: mailto:stealthsuite[..][4]nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20stealthmonger-k ey References 1. mailto:loki@obscura.com 2. mailto:StealthMonger@nym.mixmin.net 3. mailto:cypher@cpunk.us 4. http://nym.mixmin.net/