Re: Anonymous browsing (was Re: Getting Back to our Radical Roots)

[Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>]

On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Jeremey Barrett wrote:

> The trick is to design a system where an eavesdropper can't correlate
> a connection into the anonymous network to one coming out. Such a system will 
> 
> almost certainly involve some sort of "personal proxy" running on your own 
> machine. It might maintain a constant bandwidth to the anonymous network, but 
> 
> that's sub-optimal since most people like their bandwidth for other things.

The trick for users might be to move everything through the DC net. That way 
you take a max. hit of 50% loss of bandwidth. The problem would likely be 
worse for intermediate nodes. Need to think about this some more. There 
is a solution...

--Lucky