OFF: anon.penet.fi

[M Holmes]

Hulsebos A writes:

> It's true, however, that you still can figure out where encrypted mail gets
> sent to. But that's also true for a letter. The anonymous remailer just
> makes sure that the return address is only known at the remailer.

A better anon remailer would either maintain a constant flood of traffic
to prevent traffic analysis, or at least save hundreds of messages and
mail them all out at once.

I did like the dead letter drop in the movie of The Saint though. His
instructions were encrypted and stegged into a picture dropped as a dead
letter in a binaries newsgroup. If that had been sent through a decent
anonymous remailer then it'd be hard to get the message, the sender, or
the recipient, or indeed even to know there was a message. As perfect a
spy protoicol as you could ask for, which is propably a big part of the
reason the net worries the spooks so much.

FoFP