- Original Message -
From: Meyer Wolfsheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: CDR: Re: re: Remailer Phases
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
2. Operator probably trustworthy
Impossible, and unnecessary. Don't assume any remops are trustworthy.
Actually it is absolutely necessary. If all operators are willing to
collude, then your precious anonymity is completely lost. A simple
tracing methodology can establish this. The first remailer operator
tracks the
exact outgoing message to the next collusion, the second tracks to the
third, etc until the message escapes, then the colluding operators track
back through
the list of remailers, linking based on the intermediate value being
sent,
until it reaches operator 1 who knows the sending address. This assumes
a best case of the sender determining the path taken through encryption.
Worst case the first operator can reveal the information to everyone.
Joe
Run your own remailer. Chain through it at some point. As long as you
trust yourself, there is no threat.
Who of the current remops do you trust? Why?
I don't trust any of them. I don't personally use remailers, I don't tend to
do things that are illegal, but if I did there are other methods that I'd
use.
Joe
