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Update of /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/batching-taxonomy
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	taxonomy.tex 
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RCS file: /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/batching-taxonomy/taxonomy.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.22
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diff -u -d -r1.22 -r1.23
--- taxonomy.tex	2 Sep 2002 07:55:46 -0000	1.22
+++ taxonomy.tex	6 Sep 2002 06:07:42 -0000	1.23
@@ -115,13 +115,8 @@
 addresses; indeed, infrastructures to ensure sender authentication
 have proved difficult to build. More importantly, source authentication
 on links would trivially defeat the very anonymity free-route mix networks
-are intended to protect.
-%i added the phrase free-route here, so we don't have people jumping
-% up and down saying "but you can do it if you have a cascade topology
-% and give out blinded tokens" -rd
-Thus, the threat of the active
-attacker comes from him having the power to log and manipulate
-messages on the links.
+are intended to protect. The active attacker's threat comes from his
+power to log and manipulate messages on the links.
 
 Note that the global active attacker can be viewed as a combination of
 two separate attackers: one who can only insert messages (global
@@ -136,7 +131,7 @@
 particular message originating from a sender.  We illustrate this in
 the case of a single threshold $n$ mix\footnote{The same attack can be
   used against a mix cascade by mounting it against the first mix, or
-  against a mix network by repeating it $l$ (the number of mixes in
+  against a mix network by repeating it $\ell$ (the number of mixes in
   the path) times.}.  The attack, commonly referred to
 as the $n-1$ attack, proceeds as follows: The attacker observes the
 target message leaving the sender heading towards the mix and delays

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