Re: Reordering, not Latency (Was: Re: Remailer)

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>]

Andrew Lowenstern says:
> Is this even technically possible?  That is, wholesale monitoring of  
> disparate portions of the net from a single access point.

Sure -- you need to have packet forwarders installed all over the
place, but thats easy to do -- there are commercial network monitoring
products that will do the job for you. In that sense, you can't do it
from a single access point.

> To monitor the entire remailer network an attacker would have to
> setup packet sniffers upstream from each and every portion of the
> Net that contained a remailer, wouldn't they?

Largely, although they could be smart about how they did it.

Perry