IP: Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Seems like the stuff we did at UCI in the 70's under a Darpa contract djf


> Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps
> By Declan McCullagh
>
> 2:00 a.m. Aug. 17, 2001 PDT
>
> Onions may be the secret ingredient in protecting the Pentagon's
> classified information.
>
> During an afternoon presentation at the Usenix Security conference on
> Thursday, a researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
> described a technology known as "Onion Routing," which preserves
> anonymity by wrapping the identity of users in onion-like layers.
>
> "Public networks are vulnerable to traffic analysis. Packet headers
> identify recipients, and packet routes can be tracked," said Paul
> Syverson, who works at the NRL's Center for High Assurance Computer
> Systems. "Even encrypted data exposes the identity of the
> communicating parties."
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46126,00.html



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