some light reading

as promised, here's whats going on in my head for actual network topology
/ routing / etc.  The latency this should pull, assuming 0ms message
handling time (aka impossible, but tunable as per router implementations),
 came to ~ 600ms for a message to be sent over the internet anonymously
with 5 million routers in the network. 
(2LK+Clog(N)/K: L = avg # hops / tunnel, K = avg ms / hop, C = % of routing
table cached per router, N = # routers, but thats all way preliminary)

This draws upon many, many, many different systems, and I've gone through
a few hundred pdfs/.ps files, but from what I've been reading, the closest
anonymizing network design out there to what I'm describing is Morphmix
- http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/565365.html
The two differences are:
Morphmix is a gateway system (anonymized originator, not destination,
 while we provide sender, reciever, and server anonymity)
Morphmix felt that distributed hash tables aren't worth the effort to
implement (I obviously disagree [see log(N) above], and with caching
DHTs, the overhead is nearly none with significant benefits [see the
% factor of C off log(N)])

Anyway, everything in red is "um, wtf", but I thought it'd be good if
I got this out even in draft form so people would be able to look it
over *BEFORE* the tuesday meeting ;)

Questions/problems/thoughs/frisbees, reply here or /msg jrand0m on iip
-jrandom