At 10:15 PM 11/25/2001 -0500, Andrew McMeikan wrote: >For sweetspot applications that are considered immoral in *any* place in >the world then you get at least a potential problem for those that >promote/encourage/use depending on the reach and proportional power of >those offended
Agreed. But then again this already applies to credit cards (interest is illegal in some Muslim nations) and other mainstream financial products and their usage. >I can think of evil 'guilds' that should be defied yet how do you protect >against them when they have increadibly large power? It is these very >large 'guilds' that object, they notice even if the ones you are truely >against are smaller and powerless. An excellent test of any ecash system's anonymity is Child Porn. >Traffic analysis is the bamboo spike in the bottom of the financial crypto >pit, find a way to avoid the spike, win the prize. > >Remember you might only want to beat the small bad guys, but you must also >be able to beat the biggest because they wont be on your side. Quite a bit of work has been done and continues in this area. http://netcamo.cs.tamu.edu/ "Within the NetCamo ( Network Camouflaging ) project, we study how to prevent traffic analysis in mission-critical QoS-guaranteed networks." Some of the people from this project gave a talk at the USENIX Security works-in-progress session on "a quantitative analysis of anonymous communications." Abstract is at: http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/mcdaniel_wip.html Also, Roger Dingledine and Paul Syverson have a recent paper on reputations for MIX cascades which may be of interest, given previous discussions on how to build more reliable remailers. See it at http://www.freehaven.net/doc/casc-rep/casc-rep.ps http://www.freehaven.net/doc/casc-rep/casc-rep.pdf slides at http://www.freehaven.net/doc/casc-rep/slides-oreilly.ps steve --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gold.com/stats.html lets you observe the e-gold system's activity now!
