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   XPost: sci.crypt   
   From: K.Hagan@thermoteknix.com   
      
   On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:25:49 +0100, Skybuck Flying   
    wrote:   
      
   > The ip.source is translated into something else/arbitrary along the   
   > path's routers to it's destination.   
      
   There's your mistake. You cannot talk about "the" path from source to   
   destination because in general there are multiple paths and different   
   packets in the same TCP flow might travel by different routes.   
      
   NAT, which you mention in a later post, only works because everyone in the   
   private address space is behind a single router. (One could presumably   
   implement some sort of co-operative NAT if you had multiple boundary   
   routers, but this certainly isn't how it works in the average home or   
   small office.) That single router is, of course, also a single point of   
   failure, so your proposal actually depends on something that some people   
   would reckon was a problem.   
      
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