Re: End to end Mixminion issues, with proposed solutions

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@alum.mit.edu>]

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 14:47, Len Sassaman wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, George Danezis wrote:
> 
> > BTW: I do take Len's comment abou the fact that fragment recomposition
> > would need to happen on the network rather than the edges, but I rather
> > think of it as a network service rather than a basic thing that everyone
> > should do (depending on implementing a particular exit policy). Am I
> > wrong?
> 
> I'm thinking about this in the terms of an implimentor's document. I'm
> fine with permitting an implimentation to ignore packet reassembly issues
> if it never delivers plaintext messages or creates Mixminion packets from
> plaintext -- but in that case it should probably not ever be seeing packet
> type "partial", should it? Looks like there's room for an If...Then
> statement in the spec.

Exactly.  While an implementation need not support compression and
reassembly, all implementations that do so must do so in the same way.

-- 
Nick