-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 01/06/14 20:54, [email protected] wrote: >>> There is no way to hide metadata because you need a destination >>> for your messages to arrive ... has to find its destinations to >>> deliver its contents. > >> Yes of course... the minimum necessary for delivery is the >> destination address. > > Is this absolutelly necesary to be on clear? Can't it be possible > to be broadcasted and forwarded to all the peers in the network, or > it would be a no sense?
It's possible, but it wouldn't scale well. There are some routing protocols for ad hoc wireless networks that take that approach: A. Boukerche, K. El-Khatib, L. Xu, and L. Korba. SDAR: A secure distributed anonymous routing protocol for wireless and mobile ad hoc networks. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2004), Tampa, FL, USA, pages 618–624, November 2004. R. Song, L. Korba, and G. Yee. AnonDSR: Efficient anonymous dynamic source routing for mobile ad-hoc networks. In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN 2005), Alexandria, VA, USA, pages 32–42, November 2005. B. Zhu, Z. Wan, M.S. Kankanhalli, F. Bao, and R.H. Deng. Anonymous secure routing in mobile ad-hoc networks. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2004), Tampa, FL, USA, pages 102–108, November 2004. S. Seys and B. Preneel. ARM: Anonymous routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006), Vienna, Austria, pages 133–137, April 2006. http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/publications/article-636.pdf Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJTi5RLAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMIZEH/0wZ31OjI092QJsoqgz7tKe8 4SX0nXsewpK050CELG5pIHNfibX+TkxOSkkZh3ZxnKxqdadhhP/wFrNej2gwmF8v ULF6QMfPuFHT8KCI205hdw3hsqHU1HIpC7grde7yF2dQHXBQwFog08kY4RlPEPz4 MoLOF0SSC1nZuJZ/Q5XfQo0iOXZ1SF6AMgM+m25bPhYGjzPUWMXaonZh2G7VSMj3 VGdfxPnj4i/6Ximbofmf2+ppm7yFEiOh0aDbrnz9bCryGvcSda3GSp+NKMpOEuRN eZ1TzMBhcVOWxxKLMp7IO7LkLOj7JOTgashipGTauDJGtGpoz4ExF6udfSnk3PY= =QtiP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
