Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:00:08 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email push and pull (was Re: matthew dillon) Message-ID: <a05200f5cba7146e25655@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <3E4B12F5.2608BBB@mindspring.com> References: <20030211032932.GA1253@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <a05200f2bba6e8fc03a0f@[10.0.1.2]> <3E498175.295FC389@mindspring.com> <a05200f38ba6f51f20eff@[10.0.1.2]> <3E49C434.D8D497EE@mindspring.com> <a05200f44ba6fe5dff1a0@[10.0.1.2]> <3E4A83BC.8A15E7C3@mindspring.com> <a05200f4fba70847460b3@[10.0.1.2]> <3E4B12F5.2608BBB@mindspring.com>
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At 7:37 PM -0800 2003/02/12, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> This problem is already solved -- check out Perdition.
>
> The problem is *not* solved by Perdition. Perdition does not even
> *begin* to solve the problem.
Okay, what parts of the problem doesn't Perdition solve?
>> You can do this today. Send an e-mail and tell people to go read
>> a specific USENET news message. Doesn't work too well.
>
> Doesn't address any privacy issues. Even encrypted, your data is
> out there for anyone to perform traffic analysis upon.
I don't see how you can do a flood-fill mechanism without having
the message accessible to anyone who'd want to read it. Of course,
it should be public-key encrypted, so that the only traffic analysis
that could be performed was the path that it took over the flood-fill
servers, which could be obscured.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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