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<Pine(_dot_)LNX(_dot_)4(_dot_)04(_dot_)9902161233430(_dot_)10046-100000(_at_)kenny(_dot_)comstar(_dot_)net>,
on
02/16/99
at 12:39 PM, Andy Dustman <adustman(_at_)comstar(_dot_)net> said:
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, William H. Geiger III wrote:
Since we are talking about creating a mixmaster 3 has anyone thought of
abandoning using e-mail and go to direct connections between the mixmaster
servers? We could use something like TLS for encrypted links. I think that
there would be some advantages in this approach against traffic analysis
of the remailers. If the remailer links were reliable we could have a
steady stream of traffic between the servers injecting messages when
needed. We would still need pooling and mixing on the end remailers before
they sent messages out for the final hop via sendmail.
That's actually been in the works for a long time, probably pre-2.0.3.
The idea was to use a DH key exchange. Another advantage of doing
something like this, probably often overlooked, is that mixmaster packets
can be exchanged in binary 8-bit format: No more ASCII armor and a 25%
reduction in size, at least. Not everyone will be able to make use of
this (you'll need to have at least a PPP connection). Even then, a
possibility is to list a remailer as intermittent, so that other
remailers don't try to transfer messages unless there is already an open
connection with that remailer, or try once per hour. Something like that.
Well I guess for the remailers that are not on a direct connection we
could switch back to the old format for transmitting messages. We will
still need this ability for accepting messages from and send to the end
users.
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