MixMinion Status

[George Danezis <gd@theory.lcs.mit.edu>]

Dear All,

I am in the process of rewritting the core of the design document to 
reflect what we discussed last Saturday. 

Roger: Feel free to hack the introduction, I am not going to work on it 
until later.

Yours,

George

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> 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
>