On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:38:55PM -0300, Punk - Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:03:59 +1100 > Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 06:58:57PM -0300, Punk - Stasi 2.0 wrote: > > > > > > courtesy of tor scum dingledine and matheson and a GCHQ guy, danezis > > > who now works for facebook-NSA as well. Wait, facebook, nsa, gchq, > > > university of london, etc so many aliases for the same mafia. > > > > > > > > > anyway : https://www.mixminion.net/minion-design.pdf > > > > Have not begun to read that yet, > > there's a good deal of handwaving bullshit in there > > "The adversary can delay messages...The efficacy of this attack is poorly > understood, but > it may well be quite damaging" > > so they admit that their own fucking system is 'poorly understood' by > their own fucking selves and may be 'quite damaged' - well I guess that's at > least half honest. > > > "Dummy traffic is an old approach to improving anonymity, but its efficacy is > still not well analyzed." > > oh really? > > "We need stronger intuition about how to use dummy messages." > > ...stronger...intuition...? > > "While many people have speculated about the benefits of dummy traffic, we > have not yet seen any convincing analysis." > .... > > > "Exit attacks - Use the mix network to send hate mail" > "ISPs do not tolerate systems that potentially deliver hate mail" > > > ...'hate mail'? agents of the child murdering pentagon like dingledine > are worried about 'hate mail'...? > > > bottom line for me is that the system is (a lot) more complex than I > expected - and doesn't seem too reliable either. > > > The 'acknowledgments' section is kinda 'intersting' too.... > > cohen and 'zooko' wilcox get mentioned and..."We further thank all the > unnamed cypherpunks out there who have worked on remailer issues for the past > decades." > > > isn't the collaboration between 'cypherpunks' and the pentagon quite > touching.
Indeed. covfefe net is the UDP network layer chaff fill, packet switched network. This is where chaff fill - those "dummy messages" mentioned above - needs to be done, in the network layer. The reason? Once available, any "message" or "stream" type can layer on top (including TCP) - the nature of a network layer of course.
