Re: Anonymous Anonymous ftp

[eric@Synopsys.COM]

>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:09:38 -0800 (PST), tcmay@netcom.com
(Timothy C. May) said:

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Tim> (Bob (Charles (Doris (Ed (........ (Zeke (final stuff))))....)))

Tim> Envelopes within envelopes within envelopes. (Naturally we need better
Tim> tools for doing this encapsulization, as manual efforts are too
Tim> error-prone, besides being hideously boring.)

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Tim> Well, enough for now. There could be some fatal flaws, but this is the
Tim> direction I've been thinking about. Eric Messick and Hugh Daniel had
Tim> some ideas about "onions" about a year ago, but I never fully grokked
Tim> what their scheme was. If it was a scheme like this, and I have either
Tim> duplicated their thinking or was subconsciously affected by it, I
Tim> trust they'll let us all know.

What you've got here is very similar, but you've added a very
interesting slant to it.  The cost of setting up a prepaid mailer (at
least in terms of distributed compute power) appears to be pretty
high,  but the security you gain from it is likely to be worth it for
certain applications.  I'll have to spend some time studying this.
Very interesting indeed...

-eric messick