Yet more stego scare in the New York Times

Udhay Shankar N udhay at pobox.com
Wed Oct 31 06:48:37 EST 2001


At 04:32 PM 10/30/01 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:

>         Anonymizing WWW proxies - eg www.anonymizer.com; www.cotse.com,
>www.safeweb.com. The better of these use SSL and encrypted URLs, also manage
>cookies intelligently. They sheild the user from both identification by the
>target site,
>and block an observer (for example, at a firewall) between the user and the
>proxy from
>identifying the target site. Of course, none of this is shielded from the
>proxy owner.

I tried chaining 3 web proxies once, but it was unusably slow and kept 
timing out. Any work been done in that area?

Udhay

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      God is silent. Now if we can only get Man to shut up.



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