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[freehaven-cvs] Removing a throwaway comment and a minor grammar fix.



Update of /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/batching-taxonomy
In directory moria.seul.org:/home/aas23/doc/batching-taxonomy

Modified Files:
	taxonomy.tex 
Log Message:
Removing a throwaway comment and a minor grammar fix.


Index: taxonomy.tex
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RCS file: /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/batching-taxonomy/taxonomy.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.28
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -d -r1.28 -r1.29
--- taxonomy.tex	8 Sep 2002 09:51:56 -0000	1.28
+++ taxonomy.tex	9 Sep 2002 20:35:49 -0000	1.29
@@ -305,13 +305,12 @@
 Another possible attack scenario is when an attacker owns a mix in a
 free route mix network. He has the capability to delay all the
 messages going through this mix until the conditions are ``just
-right'', i.e. the next mix contains $n-1$
-of the attacker's messages and will fire as soon as the target message
-reaches it. Thus, he has the capability to attack the next mix in the
-route of each of the messages going through the mix he controls. (As
-a result, if the attacker own all the mixes but one,
-he is able to compromise anonymity of any
-message.)
+right'', i.e. the next mix contains $n-1$ of the attacker's messages
+and will fire as soon as the target message reaches it. Thus, he has
+the capability to attack the next mix in the route of each of the
+messages going through the mix he controls. (As a result, if the
+attacker owns all the mixes but one, he is able to compromise
+anonymity of any message.)
 
 %(AAS comment: Verification comments should go here!)
 \subsection{Timed Mix}
@@ -627,11 +626,12 @@
 mix does not always have this batch of messages for mixing the target
 message, its minimum anonymity should be considered to be very much
 worse than that of the threshold pool mix unless a large pool is
-maintained. As was shown in \cite{Serj02}, the anonymity contribution
-of pool messages is quantifiably greater than those of batch messages.
-So a larger pool is always preferable from this perspective. Of course
-this would have an impact on message delay, reducing one of the
-potential advantages of having a timed mix.
+maintained. 
+%As was shown in \cite{Serj02}, the anonymity contribution
+%of pool messages is quantifiably greater than those of batch messages.
+%So a larger pool is always preferable from this perspective. Of course
+%this would have an impact on message delay, reducing one of the
+%potential advantages of having a timed mix.
 
 \paragraph*{Blending Attack Behaviour:}
 Two flavours of blending attack are possible on this mix.  The adversary

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