On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 09:03:41AM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > only when we can establish an encrypted connection between our servers > > so that snoopers can not see what kind of messages are transported, > Snoopy can still see when that connection is being established, how > often, and when and how much data is transferred.
that is true, but you can mask that a lot easier by sending fake data. > I don't believe there's a big difference with sending encrypted > emails. there is, the subject you mentioned, but also received headers, forwarding and all that, sender and recipient. with the encrypted connection the snooper will only see that some university machine is making a connection to newzealand, he can't see who from that server is making the connection. he does not know who has access to that server, and the same may be true for the other side if yuri allows friends to use his computer. add ipsec to that and the snooper won't even see which ports are used for the connection. i could configure that mail be only sent whenever yuri makes an ipsec sonnection to my server which also is a webserver with contents completely unrelated to me and the snooper will be completely unaware that yuri and i are working on this conspiracy to get everybody to believe in god. greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
