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

["William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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In <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902161233430.10046-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on
02/16/99 
   at 12:39 PM, Andy Dustman <adustman@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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