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Replacing email with XMPP...why not?



Anonymity is much easier and much stronger in a uni-directional store and forward environment. Real time is a killer and creates all kinds of attack paths.

	-Lance

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Lance Cottrell
[email protected]



> On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:13 PM, StealthMonger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Cypher <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> I've been reading a lot about the need to replace email and I'm not
>> quite sure why we're not moving to an XMPP based model.
> 
> Because it's /connection based/ and therefore low latency, so cannot be
> used by an untraceable pseudonym (endpoint IP packet correlation).
> 
> Contrast with email, where the security is /message based/ and can use
> anonymizing remailers having deliberately long, random latency.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> -- StealthMonger
>    Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity.
> 
> 
> Key: mailto:stealthsuite[..]nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20stealthmonger-key
> 

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