[michael.holstein at csuohio.edu: Re: Anonymity questions]

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Wed Feb 22 19:34:19 UTC 2006


On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:08:07AM -0800, ADB wrote:

> No crap. That's only if they're specifically watching YOU or something 
> you're connected to in some way. However, a large, vibrant Tor network 
> would greatly hinder 'roving wiretap' type passive intel gathering 
> operations.

Opportunistic encryption would already do that -- if only OE wasn't
so painful with IPsec (requiring publishing DNS records kills it
clean in the water). Arguably, StartTLS already does for SMTP -- if
only it was enabled by default, using self-signed certs.

So there are methods, but no one uses them, because the other end won't
have it.

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