Tavin Cole <tcole at espnow.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:10:14PM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote:
> > My argument was that now you just get back a generic "QRej", without a
> > reason, you don't know which is the case.  So an attacker can't use that
> > information to determine the path of a request.
> > 
> > It doesn't "compromise anonymity", it just gives an attacker more
> > information than I'd like them to have.
> 
> Well, they already get a reason string that says "route not found" or
> "looped request," and they already get the HTL value at the rejecting
> node.
> 
> -tc
> 
And I ask "why are we giving that information?"  I don't see it being
any use except to someone trying to trace the path of a request.
Maybe it's useful for debugging (although I don't think we currently
make _any_ use of it), but I'd like to have this removed by 1.0.

Thelema
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