[liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

Richard rz at linux-m68k.org
Thu Aug 15 09:05:19 PDT 2013


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 07:12:24PM -0400, Tom Ritter wrote:
> On 14 August 2013 18:01, Richard <rz at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On the other end of the paranoia scale I would like to remind folks of the
> > the mixmaster remailer chaining technique which does much more than plain
> > encryption - as far as I can see it is theoretically completely untraceable.
> 
> That statement is not correct.  Mix networks require more effort to
> trace than normal packets or Onion Routing, but are not even close to
> "theoretically completely untraceable".  I'll point to Syverson's
> papers (Why I'm not an entropist, and Sleeping dogs lie in a bed of
> onions) and Serjantov's "From a Trickle to a Flood."

thanks for the pointers, will review them when I have time. 

Still think that mixmaster would deserve more attention.


Richard

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