Re: Jeff's Side of the Story.

[Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:

> The non-deterministic retention time in the network could probably be
> solved, but at the expense of some significant complexity.  I have 
> not been able to think of a secure way to do it, however.  [If the 
> remailers know and trust each other, the problem is easy.]

Remailers using this could be configured to not modify the "date" header
until final delivery.  Then you can base the probablity of final delivery
upon some function of date/time or another header
"X-Remailer-Max-Delay-Time:"   If you're worried about traffic analysis,
it is possible to randomly modify the date/time header by small amounts
at each hop.  (This however only helps and somewhat loaded systems..)

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