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Re: Who "invented" remailers?




At 06:27 PM 6/3/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>(There are important issues, discussed by several of us several years ago,
>and more recently by Wei Dai and Lucky Green, dealing with correlation
>analysis of messages sent and messages received...esentially pattern
>analysis.

This type of analysis is unlikely to provide useful results for
high-latency systems such as remailers. However, this analysis can be very
fruitful on near real time systems such as ill-designed chained http
anonymizers.

[Tim of course knows this, I just want to make sure that this is
universally understood.]


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