[guardian-dev] an idea for removing meta data from a server which establishes connections between two clients.

[Abel Luck]

Tom Ritter:
> We don't have a lot of ideas to defeat traffic analysis.  It's either
> onion routing, mixing, short-lived broadcasts, or shared mailboxes.
> (I'd love to know of more.)  If spacial component is an option, it may
> be an effective way to limit the bandwidth of a shared mailbox.
> 

Could you point to some links or docs about short-lived broadcasts and
shared mailboxes? I'm interested to know what those are.

~abel


> The problem with this idea, as I see it, is that because both clients
> are very mobile, and move sites a lot, and the server (cell tower)
> knows who is in which site, it won't take very long at all to
> determine who Client A keeps communicating with.  And that's assuming
> one-way.  If Client B replies, it will take even less time.
> 
> -tom
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