mixminion-dev list

[Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

Current participants are

arma@mit.edu
archiver@seul.org
gd@theory.lcs.mit.edu
nickm@reputation.com
zooko@zooko.com
dm@scs.cs.nyu.edu

It's majordomo.

It's being archived but the archive isn't public. I can switch it to
public down the road once we stop saying conspiracy-like things and
want to start sounding official.

mixminion.org and .net are currently free. Maybe we should grab them.

Wouldn't it be nice if we had a design document ready for info hiding,
Dec 5? I was talking to Ian Goldberg, Adam Shostack and Lucky Green today,
and they encouraged me to move forward with this. It would also be very
useful as an alternative to H T Kung's ietf drafts, which are universally
regarded by the anonymity community as "not very useful", "not addressing
the real problems", and "not taking into account any of the literature".

I want to rewrite the intro part of George's discussion; I think it can
become a lot more precise/useful/clear/etc. I'll wait until he has a
new version ready before attacking that (unless I hear otherwise).

I'm going to set up cvs in a bit. It will have anonymous pserver
access so people can pull down cvs with the guest account.

I need to add lines in the cvsroot/passwd for writers. You need this
if you're a writer, even if you have a user account on moria. Please
don't send me plaintext passwords. Here's a script which will generate
the required crypts.

Script info:

usage: ./crypto <password>
returns: <encrypted password>

-- start script --
#!/usr/bin/perl                                                                                                        
srand (time());
my $randletter = "(int (rand (26)) + (int (rand (1) + .5) % 2 ? 65: 97))";
my $salt = sprintf ("%c%c", eval $randletter, eval $randletter);
my $plaintext = shift;
my $crypttext = crypt ($plaintext, $salt);
print "${crypttext}\n";
-- end script --

Pick passwords which are not used on other systems -- pserver sends it
in the clear these days.

--Roger