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s/link-level/link/ for more clarity
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--- minion-design.tex 7 May 2002 14:19:28 -0000 1.42
+++ minion-design.tex 7 May 2002 14:21:16 -0000 1.43
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
learn public keys and performance statistics of participating remailers,
and we describe nymservers that allow users to maintain long-term
pseudonyms using single-use reply blocks as a primitive. Our design
-integrates link-level encryption between remailers to provide
+integrates link encryption between remailers to provide
forward anonymity. Mixminion brings together the best solutions from
previous work to create a conservative design that protects against most
known attacks.
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
design \cite{remailer-history}. By integrating reply capabilities into
Mixminion, we can finally retire the Type I remailer network.
-We introduce link-level encryption with ephemeral keys to ensure forward
+We introduce link encryption with ephemeral keys to ensure forward
anonymity for each message. We also provide flexible delivery schemes ---
rather than just allowing delivery to mail or Usenet, we allow designers
to add arbitrary modules to handle incoming and outgoing messages. By
@@ -644,11 +644,11 @@
\section{Related design decisions}
In this section we discuss how we are using
-link-level encryption with ephemeral keys to provide forward anonymity,
+link encryption with ephemeral keys to provide forward anonymity,
message types and modules to handle different types of messages, and
exit policies for advertising what delivery options a node will provide.
-\subsection{Link-level encryption and what it gets us}
+\subsection{Link encryption and what it gets us}
\label{subsec:link-encrypt}
Unlike remailer Types I and II that used SMTP \cite{SMTP} (i.e. ordinary
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@
% I'm not sure, though, whether we want one of the cert-based ones (A)
% or one of the the anon-server ones. (B) -Nick
-The purpose of link-level encryption is to provide forward secrecy:
+The purpose of link encryption is to provide forward secrecy:
% link-level, *not* link-layer. link-layer is a layer-2 OSI thing.
% saying that our transport level protocol uses link-layer encryption
% makes no sense. -RRD