[Remops] Upgrade mixmaster network to the new keys

[Lance Cottrell]

I would agree as long as there is a firm sunset date when the old ones will be retired. If the issue is not forced, history suggests that people will not migrate.

	-Lance

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Lance Cottrell
loki at obscura.com



On Aug 1, 2014, at 4:45 AM, Steve Crook <steve at mixmin.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 04:14:36PM +0200, Jeremy Bentham Admin wrote:
>> Now that we have a working mixmaster 3.0.2e binary for windows,
>> it seems to me that the next appropriate step is to move as many
>> remailers as possible to large keys. In fact, we should probably
>> move _all_ remailers to large keys in order to provide the
>> anonymity we promise as remailer operators.
> 
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> I'd like to suggest that instead of asking Remops to migrate to larger
> keys, that we ask them to run an additional, large key remailer.  While
> we, as a community, are very aware of the features of Mixmaster-3.0.2,
> there may be many users of Mixmaster that don't follow discussions in
> a.p.a-s or the remops list.  There are also mixmaster packages in
> stable Linux releases that won't be upgraded until the next stable OS
> release is made.  This may take months.
> 
> Running parallel remailers is relatively simple and I think most 
> operators have the technical abilities to do so.  This approach gives an
> extended period of support for users of mixmaster < 3.0.2 but also
> increases the pool of large key remailers for other users.  We already
> have pingers that provide support for old, new and mixed key sizes so no
> issues there.
> 
> Steve
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