-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 30/06/13 20:32, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Michael Rogers: >> I'd love to see a revitalisation of remailer research, focussing >> on unlinkability (which we know many people would benefit from) >> rather than sender anonymity (which fewer people need, and which >> is prone to abuse that discourages people from running mixes). > > I'd also like to see revitalisation of remailer research. Though > anonymity as Tor is designed is specifically about unlinkability. > To reduce it to sender anonymity is pretty ... ridiculous. What one > does with an anonymous communications channel is up to them - many > people do actually want that feature for chatting, web browsing, > news, email, etc.
I'm not sure if I understand you right, but it sounds like you think I was saying that Tor is only designed for sender anonymity, and that sender anonymity isn't useful in general. I wasn't saying either of those things. My point was much smaller in scope: remailers have tried to provide sender anonymity for email, but in the current climate that's useful to fewer people than unlinkability for email, which a remailer-like system could provide more easily than sender anonymity. By all means let's build that remailer-like system on top of Tor, if it can be done in such a way that the low-latency and high-latency traffic share anonymity sets. If on the other hand it's effectively two different networks sharing an implementation then it might make sense to build a separate system. Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR0sYGAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMVDEIALPCMHLloyB76MSSonEPyLOU 4Nc/mMDD5w4uYxfMh5ynfQb7b1KqRcYZjK+AMJudj/1CRrHdVbKSKm2sxiJleFSu w6/CQ05T10jrsEFkALPgMF8mMERGIRc0S1HXPGpZgNW1PrjGdsTpVYa+z83/VBg2 50deiWPfSY1EctAavun2Zzble/VMwQOjJcu+ElOE6d9zyQIDe5SmsMhryf2775eV ySU0fQALd3NP+o5Vsw9WlHc5JjHtopYFXvwEGvnrssggyepVTTN8ovKBsEIgtQ7Z FmPzs2v2XZD+L75M8L15d3MtnGahxnlnscScOXHCsZtLwO/5rLc7nhwzaUQam5k= =XGbu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
