Re: End to end Mixminion issues, with proposed solutions

[Len Sassaman <rabbi@abditum.com>]

On 24 Sep 2002, Nick Mathewson wrote:

> Exactly.  While an implementation need not support compression and
> reassembly, all implementations that do so must do so in the same way.

That's not exactly what I said.

Not all implementations need to support creation of remailer messages,
or delivery of plaintext messages. There could be an implementation that
is simply a "middleman" remailer, that only takes encrypted remailer
messages, mixes them, and hands them to other remailers. Such an
implementation would not be concerned with fragmentation or reassembly.

Any implementation that delivers messages to the end user (in plain text)
MUST know how to reassemble them. And any implementation that creates
remailer messages from plain text SHOULD know how to fragment the message,
and SHOULD NOT but MAY reject oversized messages.


--Len.