On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:22:07PM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote:
> > Adding a reason code to the QRej is probably a good idea on general 
> > principle.
> > 
> For the purposes of debugging, it's fine, but I like the fact that now
> you can't use QRej responses to determine whether a node is part of a
> request chain.  This level of uncertainty I find really useful in
> protecting anonymity.

I don't follow your claim.  If a node replies "QRej: route not found"
you know it hasn't seen the request before, but if it replies
"QRej: looped request" you know it has.

So how does adding a reason code to QueryRejected compromise anonymity?
-tc


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