At 10:12 AM 7/18/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >strong anonymity: > >it should be possible to set up such a service (basically an anonymous >imap/ssl based server, or anonymous proxying to such a server. the deal, >however, is that you have to trust the server operator to indeed not >write logs). That's why all the mixmastering/onioning/freenet systems use multiple servers. Their protocols can defend against N of M hostile nodes. That seems to be the only solution when you can't centralize trust. The cost is increased bandwidth and (for some systems) decreased reliability. How long do commercial ISPs keep records of activity? I suppose call setup/drop info is sparse, they could keep it all, like telcos. Recording every TCP session would be too much, without a specific target, no? (Or is this wishful thinking?)
