Re: Secure chat

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 09/14/05 

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:35:18 +0000 (UTC)

In article <Xns96D1979775385juergennieveler@nieveler.org>,
Juergen Nieveler <juergen.nieveler.nospam@arcor.de> wrote:
:Therefore, if you build a "Mixmaster" into
:every IM client, to send non-traceable messages all you need to do is
:choose a recipient at random from all the clients that are online at
:that time. The client would decrypt the message, and if it's destined
:for him, he'd show it to the local user. If not, he'd pass it on to the
:next hop...

:Any takers? Does this sound like a workable concept?

No. You are definitely not going to be able to convince all IM
authors to go along with that.

And unless it is totally involuntary (no way to turn it off) you will
end up in situations where people who do turn it on will be charged as
being accessories to crime. (It won't matter that those people had no
idea -what- the traffic was: it will matter that they knew "or should
reasonably have known" that they would be "providing support and
comfort" to people planning the next bank job, underage porn, bomb...
or even just to people talking about their sexual encounters, in
locations where those types of encounters were illegal (e.g., oral,
anal, adulterous, or even illegal merely because the two people weren't
married... And Yes, that -is- still illegal sex in places.) 

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