Re: random remailers

[peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>]

> Has anyone thought about the consequence of randomly picking a
> remailing path instead of using the same one?  

what if the remailer flips a coin, choosing between final delivery
and remailing through another of its ilk.  "message delivery with
probability one ..."  imho, this beats source routing big time.
easy to hack into the scripts, too.

>                                                It occurred to me
> yesterday that randomly picked paths could reveal more information to
> the remailer sites so that they could figure out the connection
> between a pseudonym and the eventual destination pretty well.  

not sure what you mean.

	peter