Re: Abandon e-mail and go to direct connections?

[Andy Dustman <adustman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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.

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