At 04:51 PM 3/29/02 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: >"Major Variola (ret)" wrote:
>> To resist 1. you can use port 80, which ISPs can't block without losing >> most >> 'legitimate' utility for the masses :-) Or you use randomly varying >> ports and have to do more door-knocking. [Yes I screwed this up ---ISPs do commonly block incoming 80. But they don't block other ports, though you'll have to tweak your firewall to allow them --although this inhibits the use of random ports.] >> >> To resist 2. you have to be able to randomly probe IP addresses to find >> a node. > >You can use the random-appearing pads described in >http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/misc/freespeech.html . > >A list of "address servers", using any IP address and port, would be >written up in a text or binary file. This text file would be XORd with a >couple of random 128kB pads, and then sent to a newsgroup. But if the public can do this, so can the RIAA-bots. And in the hostile future, they force usenet- (or whatever-) transport to remove the encrypted lists. >The Usenet group here isn't necessary, just convenient. Its a fine anonymous-read, anonymous-write broadcast medium. >The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one >persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all >progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw "All the normalities of the social contract are abandoned in war" --Jack Valenti
