[Mixmaster-devel] Mixmaster II Reliability Issues & Test Results

[Samizdatt <Sam...@ea...>]

Just a couple of points I mistakenly omitted from my earlier results:

* When the "Black Hole" remailers were in the chain, but not the final 
remailers, they were as reliable as the rest of the remailers. I found this 
extremely puzzling. Thankfully, I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist...

* Fortunately, in 5 of the tests when "bogg" was randomly selected as one of 
the last remailers, it posted all copies of each message to the 
"alt.anonymous.messages" news group instead of only sending one copy. Thank 
God for small favors. ;)

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Copies of Messages bogg posted
 to "alt.anonymous.messages"
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Copies       Messages
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 4               5
 3               8
 2              10
 1               1
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From the first line: for 5 separate messages, all 4 copies of the messages 
sent through "bogg" were posted to the "alt.anonymous.messages" news group.

As you can see from the bogg data, usually more than a single copy made it 
through to the last remailer for the test cycles I noted.

Using bogg as an example, I feel comfortable "jumping to the conclusion" that 
most of the "Black Hole" remailers, that failed to deliver messages to the 
alt.anonymous.messages" news group, usually received more than one copy of 
each message.

That's it folks! I won't bother you again, promise...