[Mnet-devel] newbie mnet questions...

[icepick]

On 7/11/2004 11:58 PM, Kyle Hasselbacher wrote:

>>2.  Using an anonymous routing system that someone else has developed, 
>>such as MixMinion or Tor:
>>
>>MixMinion:
>>http://www.mixminion.net/
> 
> 
> Does MixMinion do more than just email?

When one mixminion node talks to another it doesn't use SMTP, but rather 
a MixMinion Transport Protocol (MMTP).  I don't know for sure what it 
adds beyond link encryption and padding.

If you had a middleman server (e.g. doesn't except mail directly, 
doesn't deliver mail directly) your node would only talk MMTP to the 
rest of the world, so you could say you don't do email at all.

Email's are just big packets anyway :).

My problem with Mnet-over-Mixminion is the FEC algo that we use.  The 
largest message you can have in a Mixminion net is 2kb (I think).  To 
reply to that you have to use a Single Use Reply Block that's around 2k. 
  Using the current FEC (or any other FEC not covered by the Low Rate 
FEC patent) will making fitting a file of a large size will be a mega 
CPU intensive operation. (I'm hoping I have that wrong.)

icepick