-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/08/13 20:14, StealthMonger wrote: > Will the other cypherpunks on this list please step forward and > help me refute this toxic propaganda? I don't have time to do it > all myself.
It isn't propaganda. Or at least, it's true. > All the problems cited in this Silent Circle blog and elsewhere > were solved 20 years ago by tools such as anonymizing remailers and > message pools. Those tools are still in use today and can be used > by anyone wanting confidential, authenticated, stealthy email. Remailers haven't solved the email metadata privacy problem in theory or in practice. In theory because of long-term intersection attacks; in practice because not enough people use them to provide meaningful anonymity, thus nobody starts using them, thus not enough people use them... A broadcast channel like alt.anonymous.messages won't scale to widespread usage (which is needed for meaningful anonymity) and is subject to fascinating dissection by Tom Ritter due to outdated crypto, user-hostile implementations (worse even than PGP!) and the aforementioned dearth of users. http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html I'm all for a revitalisation of remailer research, but let's not pretend it's a solved problem. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSG2BGAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMgYsIAJuwYbaeGK4nzrFKy+CluPxI hHg51MpfjTEBNKgEiUlXtHBVYp5U1d7kZQAPrsOu+8PBFeWt6ybEYRCTDmk2RxQ/ rN67m06/yECUZRqTHpmhhJGD/8seb6bjt6gXFX4yi6ltTD6yENeycc9tuz6M1pRn nyJNkK9U0T8Aeu++HfWT9WEyPod43b73zFQ+a1VfbdEzi7udwo/0JqrDmFlC1gxA eva5iosZ7qU6+J1VEEhz0GAiEkv9p6IfazHOgDmB8/WZ785diOm7002rcE/oPOC6 OUeRyQ47eAkNNcm3p2SyDWkRxbOJoagdqEO9XPScmW8jiUX3Krjmt9C/ldOqruE= =BZAa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
