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Re: Eternity Uncensorable?
On 12-Aug-97 Kent Crispin wrote:
>>On Tue, Aug 12, 1997 at 12:46:02PM -0600, John Kelsey wrote:
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>>[ To: [email protected], Wei Dai ## Date: 08/08/97 10:37 pm ##
>> Subject: Re: Eternity Uncensorable? ]
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>>>Subject: Re: Eternity Uncensorable?
>>>To: Cypherpunks Lite <[email protected]>
>>>From: Wei Dai <[email protected]>
>>>Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 11:33:55 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>>I suggest using information dispersal to spread risk amongst
>>>remailer operators. Use Rabin's information dispersal technique
>>>to divide up a document into n shares such that k of them can
>>>reconstruct the original, and post each share via a seperate
>>>remailer. It would be hard for the government to single out an
>>>operator to go after since an individual share by itself is
>>>useless.
>>
>>I'm a little concerned with the usefulness of this idea in a
>>legal sense. Imagine the physical analogue: Alice buys the
>>guns and masks, and leaves them in a pre-arranged place. Bob
>>anonymously buys a car and leaves it, with the keys inside, in
>>another pre-arranged place. Carol and Dave collect the guns,
>>masks, and the car, and use them to rob a bank or hijack an
>>airplane. Do you suppose the feds will have any problem
>>prosecuting Alice and Bob for their part in the conspiracy?
>
>Yes, I think there might be problems for the feds in this case. Your
>analogy is not at all accurate, since the remailers have no knowledge
>of what their individual shares contain, and didn't supply any of the
>input data to begin with. Here's a different analogy:
>
>Alice and Bob and Carol and Dave run mailbox outlets. Elmer and Fred
>jointly rent several mailboxes. Elmer mails a single piece of a gun
>to each mailbox in a sealed package -- ABCD can have no way of
>knowing what is in each package. Fred goes to each mailbox and gets
>the package inside, takes them all home, and assemble a weapon used
>to commit a crime. It is hard to see how ABCD could be included in
>any conspiracy, because they were providing a general, legal service,
>and they had absolutely no knowledge of the conspiracy.
>
>--
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Date: 08/13/97
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