On Saturday 22 December 2007 12:51, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 09:24, Volodya wrote: > > Would it be possible to have (a very small) probability of setting the > RandomRoute flag when it's unset? In > > that case if the attacker intercepts the random routed key one has only an > inductive rather than deductive > > proof that originator is near. > > Maybe. It would change the probability from 50% to something a bit less say > 25% if on average there are two stages of random routing on a typical > request. Although IMHO two stages on average would be too many.
Also the combination of the flag being set and a low HTL would be quite unlikely. > > > > P.S. Yes i realise that simply adding random at each step is not a positive > thing. >
pgpcQzTVwphrC.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
