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It seems like it would be relatively easy to perform traffic analysis of this protocol. If you can see the traffic of a reasonable number of nodes (as I'm sure
by omh 13y ago
It seems like it would be relatively easy to perform traffic analysis of this protocol. If you can see the traffic of a reasonable number of nodes (as I'm sure the NSA can) then can't you just watch the messages being inserted and retrieved and work out who the sender and recipient is?
Obviously this doesn't help with the content of the message, but in many cases just knowing who's talking to whom is a good part of what you want to keep secret.
- naughtysriram 13y agoWhat if the tool automatically sends a new public key for next message within every current message? Or the public key can be recycled after certain period of use say 1 week. Would this make the emails look anonymous or still can be tracked?
- tux 13y agoUnless you're using your real name this should not be a problem. Also many will use this client with VPN/Proxy.
- omh 13y agoIn that respect it's not much better than just anonymously signing up for gmail via a VPN.
- adouzzy 13y agoYou can pretend reading ,say 1M, emails passed by. I mean you can only understand those you can encrypted. But there is no way to analysis which emails have you encrypted through traffic analysis. The best way to get invisible is to get into the crowd :)
- kansface 13y agoThis is just an encryption scheme. It does not provide anonymity. Truly anonymous email would not be good for spam.