Re: header-swap isn't perfectly indistinguishable (was: problem in3.2 "Replies")

[Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net>]

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Zooko wrote:

> It concerns indistinguishability within a processing node.
> Basically, perfect (statistical) indistinguishability in the
> header-swap method is not possible without forcing all chains be the
> same length (which would be twice as long as one-way-anonymous chains
> need to be).


Um, I'm confused. The header size is fixed. The number of hops is
variable. Unused header slots are padded. How does this reveal any
information?