At 12:22 PM 12/16/2001 +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote: >On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Steve Schear wrote: > > > During your "rant" on re-mailers I mentioned the desirability of using > > popular P2P services in conjunction with remailers, possibly as middleman > > nodes. Len pointed out the problems with re-mailer system stability if P2P > > clients were used as they come and go. During the break there was a short > >P2P nodes are ephemeral, the content is not. A short message hop from node >to node is in the second range. Assuming the message doesn't sit on the >node too long (running danger of it being pulled) and there are multiple >redundant messages in transit (you wanted more idle traffic? here's is >your idle traffic) the probability of delivery should be higher than the >current remailers'. > > > discussion of using the P2P clients to generate cover traffic on > > remailers. This should be simple and involve no risk to those running the > > clients. > >Ask Google for XML-RPC and Freenet and/or Mojo Nation.
I worked with Jim on Mojo, so I have some first hand experience. The P2P systems I was referring to are the current popular crop (e.g., LimeWire and Morpheus) since they have the largest and broadest user populations. steve
