Re: message splitting for better mixing?

[David Merriman <merriman@metronet.com>]

Jim Miller
> 
> The idea:
> 
> 1) write sender-side code to split message into N parts and send each  
> part through a different remailer chain.
> 
> 2) decrypt the parts as they arrive as per normal encrypted remailer  
> messages.
> 
> 3) write receiver-side code to detect "a part" and stuff it in a file  
> until the remaining related parts arrive.  When all related parts  
> have arrived, present the complete message to receiver.
> 
> 
> Why?  To increase the number of "messages" flowing through the  
> remailers to make traffic analysis more difficult.
> 

Would seem to be a mild nuisance to implement, but probably be quite
effective - particularly if the pieces were 'masked' as uuencoded chunks
of, say, a .GIF or something :-)

Dave Merriman