NODE 3600156bRe: Why encrypt intra-remailernet.
Nathan Zook <nzook@bga.com>Thu, 2 Feb 95 18:01:19 PST
>We had some concerns here a while back that someone was trying to exploit
>such a feature to create an exponentially-growing message that would
>totally overload the remailers. A message of the form:
>
>::
>Request-Remailing-To: <list of remailers here>
>
>::
>Request-Remailing-To: <list of remailers here>
>
><repeat about 20 times>
>
>was sent. If all remailers had observed and honored the multiple
>requests, there would have been uncounted trillions of messages flying
>about. So I would caution anyone considering implementing this feature.
>
>Hal
Was this Detweiller's "exponentially growing message"?
Note that requiring pgp wrappers kills this...
Nathan
NODE d509fd95Re: Why encrypt intra-remailernet.
nobody@tower.techwood.org (Anonymous)Fri, 3 Feb 95 07:16:12 PST
Nathan Zook <nzook@bga.com> wrote:
> Was this Detweiller's "exponentially growing message"?
Yes.
> Note that requiring pgp wrappers kills this...
No, just encrypt to multiple recipients.