full-disclosure - JAP back doored

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From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: JAP back doored

Adrian Nutz <list@...z.ch> writes:

> They are in the cascades Luebeck-Berlin-Dresden and New
> York-Berlin-Dresden. I think that german judges won't have a way to
> force a mix in New York to implment the logging, which gives a cascade
> of two (possibly) unlogged mixes if you use the New York-Berlin-Dresden
> cascade.

According to the AN.ON status page, the New York cascade is not active
right now.

> I believe, that if there where more mixes around and more traffic on
> the, this would be the best way to give a lot of anonymity. 

Especially if there isn't a covert channel from the last to the first
mix in the cascade.

> There should be mixes in many different countries, if possible most of
> them shouldn't have any kind of treaties that allow a fast reaction from
> the police in this countries if some other country wants logs.

Performance would suck, too.  That's why the Dresden-Dresden cascade
is so popular, despite it's principal problem.