text_combined: r hettinga rahshipwrightcom begin forwarded text date sat 3 aug 2002 052612 0100 adam back cypherpunks cc adam back oldsubject infotheoretic model anonymity useragent mutt122i subject infotheoretic model anonymity sender ownercypherpunkslnecom read paper published pet02 towards information theoretic metric anonymity 1 httpwwwclcamacukgd216setpdf httpwwwclcamacukgd216setps uses shannon like entropy model anonymity provided system uses model analyse effect different parameters one tune mixmaster poolsize rate mixmasterconf anonymity entropy measurement interpreted many bits information attacker needs identify user computed probabilities would interesting try estimate entropy provided current mixmaster network number nodes publish parameter choices traffic volume time hourly increments adam httpwwwcypherspaceorgadam 1 inproceedingsserjantov02infotheoreticanon author andrei serjantov george danezis title towards information theoretic metric anonymity booktitle proceedings workshop privacy enhancing technologies year 2002 note also available urlhttpwwwclcamacukaas23papers_aassetps end forwarded text r hettinga internet bearer underwriting corporation 44 farquhar street boston 02131 usa however may deserve respect usefulness antiquity predicting end world found agreeable experience edward gibbon decline fall roman empire httpxentcommailmanlistinfofork sat 3 aug 2002 012536 0400 infotheoretic model anonymity