Metadata anonymization through time delayed email messaging.

[jscofiel@gmail.com (Jeff Scofield)]

Possibly, I will defer to the more technically learnt.

I'm not a nym server expert but from my laymen perspective the Pynchon Gate
design looks good. It might be totally redundant and unnecessary but if
metadata analysis is the concern, wouldn't such a setup be even more secure
by coding something so that the time between sending a message and
receiving a reply which in theory could leak information about the nym
holder, be sent at a random date in a given time-frame (unbeknownst to the
metadata leeches) . i.e. In 6-12 hours from the moment I click "send" or
say in 12-20 days etc.

The email message could be coded to send at random like an online roulette
table ball, within a given time window: verses say reloading every 24hours.
This would in theory give out incorrect message 'sent' time-stamps, or
would this be unnecessary because traf�c from the user to the email
distributors is already being controlled by the user, which queries into
intervals anyway? Is that not metadata that can be tracked?

- J



On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:22 AM, danimoth <danimoth@cryptolab.net> wrote:

> On 27/08/13 at 10:22pm, Jeff Scofield wrote:
> [cut]
> > One strategy might be to consider the adoption of a time delayed email
> > system.  The reason why the use of such a mechanism to allow someone the
> > ability to write an email, and then have it sent off at a specified (or
> > randomly generated unspecified) date is useful for multiple reasons.
> [cut]
>
> Are we trying to reinvent anonymous remailers and nym servers?
>
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