Re: Remailer Status

[werewolf@io.org (Mark Terka)]

> Hello,
> Is there any overall status on remailer use.
> Remailers up, specific commands, clear vs encrypted traffic,
> delays, un-acceptable types of mail.

Yeah, check out this post I got yesterday from alt.privacy.anon-server:

Newsgroups: alt.anonymous,alt.privacy.anon-server
Subject: How to use the anonymous remailers
Date: 7 Aug 1994 05:36:35 GMT

The Cypherpunks' remailers allow you to send anonymous mail by adding the
header Request-Remailing-To: and sending to one of the addresses listed below.
Most (but not all) of these remailers also accept Anon-To: in place of
Request-Remailing-To.  These headers must be typed exactly as you see them;
most remailers are case-sensitive.  Mail without these headers is either
rejected or delivered to the remailer administrators.  The standard
cypherpunks anonymous remailers are:

hfinney@shell.portal.com
hal@alumni.caltech.edu
ghio@kaiwan.com
nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
remailer@chaos.bsu.edu
remailer@rebma.mn.org
remail@vox.hacktic.nl
remailer@jpunix.com
remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at
rperkins@nyx.cs.du.edu
remail@c2.org
usura@hacktic.nl

If you can not add the required headers, place two colons (::) on the very
first line of your message, then on the next line type Request-Remailing-To:
and the address you want to send anonymously to.  Skip a line, and then
begin your message.  Note that by using this method it is possible to send
a message consecutively thru more than one remailer.
Be sure to place the double colons on the first line of the message, and
skip one line following the headers.  Extra blank spaces (or forgetting to
seperate the headers and message) may cause problems.

You can add additional headers to your message by placing two number signs (##)
at the beginning of the first line of the message body, and then add the
special headers on subsequent lines.  The bsu remailers require that you
place the Subject: header in the body of the message, after the ##.  The
original subject line is removed.  (remail@vox.hacktic.nl does not support
this feature.)

remailer@soda.berkeley.edu works slightly differently.  It includes an
encrypted reply block so that people can reply to your messages.  It also
requires that you use the header Anon-Send-To: to send anonymously, and
features a usenet posting service.  For more information on this remailer,
finger remailer@soda.berkeley.edu, or send mail to the remailer
with the Subject: remailer-info

remail@extropia.wimsey.com requires that you public-key encrypt your
messages with PGP.  This added security prevents a hacker or nosey
sysadmin at your site from reading your outgoing mail or finding out where
it's going.  This remailer is not directly connected to the internet,
so messages will be delayed about an hour.
Some of the other remailers support PGP as well.
For remailers which support both encryption and plaintext messages, identify
encrypted messages by adding a header which reads:  Encrypted: PGP
Encryption keys can be found below.

The remailer ghio@kaiwan.com offers many additional features, in addition to
the standard remailing commands.  Usura@hacktic.nl also supports these
features.  Adding the header "Cutmarks:" will truncate the message starting
with any line that begins with the same characters as in the Cutmarks header.
This can be used to remove an automatically-inserted signature file.  Also
supported is the header "Latent-Time:".  This allows a message to be delayed
at the remailer and sent out at a later time.  This is useful because it
prevents people from correlating the times at which certain anonymous posts
appear with the times that you are logged in.  Both absolute and relative
delays are possible.  For example, "Latent-Time: 12:00" would have the
remailer hold the message until 12:00 (noon) and then deliver it.
Times must be in 24-hour format.  "Latent-Time: +06:30" would deliver the
message six hours and thirty minutes after it is received.  The maximum
permissible delay is 24 hours.  These lines may be placed either in the
message headers, or following the double colon.  For more information on
this remailer, send mail to ghio@kaiwan.com, Subject: remailer-help

There is a pseudonym-based anonymous remailer at anon.penet.fi.  For
information on this remailer, send mail to: help@anon.penet.fi

There is another anonymous contact service at chop.ucsd.edu.  It's not as
full-featured as anon.penet.fi, but is considerably faster since it is not
burdened by such a heavy load.  For information on this remailer,
send mail to: acs-info@chop.ucsd.edu

There is a similiar service at twwells.com.  For information on this system,
send mail to anon-help@twwells.com

vox.hacktic.nl also has a anonymous account service.  For more information,
send mail to remail@vox.hacktic.nl with subject "help".

Anonymous postings to usenet can be made by sending anonymous mail to one of
the following mail-to-usenet gateways:

group.name@demon.co.uk
group.name@news.demon.co.uk
group.name@bull.com
group.name@cass.ma02.bull.com
group.name@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
group.name@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
group.name@comlab.ox.ac.uk
group.name@nic.funet.fi
group.name@cs.dal.ca
group.name@ug.cs.dal.ca
group.name@paris.ics.uci.edu (removes headers)
group.name.usenet@decwrl.dec.com (Preserves all headers)

These were all verified as of August 1, but let me know if you have
problems with any of the usenet gates listed above.  Also tell me if
you know of any more of these.
The mail-to-news gateways do not anonymize messages; you must use a
remailer if you want the message to be posted anonymously.
It would also be advisable to try a post to alt.test before relying on any
such system to function as expected.  Also note the special syntax required
at dec.com

In addition, you can cross-post to several newsgroups by adding the header
Newsgroups: with the names of the groups you want to post to and sending it to
mail2news@demon.co.uk  (Use the ## feature with the remailers to add the
header line)

Examples:

Simple Remailing:
> From: joe@site.com
> To: remail@c2.org
> Subject: Anonymous Mail
>
> ::
> Anon-To: beth@univ.edu
>
> This is some anonymous mail.

Chaining remailers:
> From: sender@origin.com
> To: remailer@rebma.mn.org
>
> ::
> Request-Remailing-To: remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at
>
> ::
> Request-Remailing-To: receipient@destination.com
>
> This is an anonymous message

Adding extra headers to the output message:
> From: suzie@euronet.co.uk
> To: remailer@chaos.bsu.edu
>
> ::
> Request-Remailing-To: mail2news@demon.co.uk
>
> ##
> Subject: Ignore this test
> Newsgroups: alt.test
> Comments: This is only a test
>
> This message will be posted to alt.test!

Cutmarks and delay:
> From: sam@eric.com
> To: ghio@kaiwan.com
> Subject: ignore
>
> ::
> Anon-To: alt.test@nic.funet.fi
> Latent-Time: +15:30
> Cutmarks: --
>
> This is an anonymous test.
> Note that it does not have my .sig appended to it!
>
> --
> sam@eric.com  -  310-853-1212  -  This is my .sig  -  Finger for PGP key!

The following are PGP public keys of the remailers which support encryption:

<remail@extropia.wimsey.com>
1024-bit key, Key ID B5A32F, created 1992/12/13
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3
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=I7QE
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Anonymous Remailer <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
510-bit key, Key ID 5620D5, created 1992/11/15
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3
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==
=arSc
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Remailing Service <hal@alumni.caltech.edu>
510/0BB437 1992/11/12
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3a

mQBNAisCtU0AAAEB/jNOYzN1B2YzOxlK/Zb6axoOaGlPq5I7DV9GH3hcGRN5N6Fi
T4sRLhi53Sc5rUdYDa8mFQd4tqvFG6rHcT8LtDcABRG0KlJlbWFpbGluZyBTZXJ2
aWNlIDxoYWxAYWx1bW5pLmNhbHRlY2guZWR1PokAlQIFECsGk/aoEwOvWCFMNwEB
24gEAJlpxL88gdKUxdgXCTCeFZ45bTbyiS0Mfy86iGthyuLRYjAEjJB5yerRaKDi
JNOgCTvnO+I9YyFdXnPEpvBjqVfpqHF2WCc4f7BgzBbOKg79EyiOp2/eYIQT1Fkk
cvisjRGlmHncfGgoq+OhVUw81imeSUPbv8vZyqskUU7djZKb
=4W6s
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Remailer (remailer@rebma.mn.org)
1024/BA80A9 1992/11/26
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3a

mQCNAisUI2QAAAEEAKgm07Hsje5KpmXYd5azk0R6AES+qK7LcofnVGojUs7GBghD
WbwrmW8oOEOhRorlShRALKeYspV4xYIw4WDkJcJxuf1B254scz1urF/Eem3zPW9b
yPAx7W/cGwvs6SouZvFcSDq4v1zApvGE9hP4szPzHeGmVr0NVNeaDK0guoCpAAUR
tCBSZW1haWxlciAocmVtYWlsZXJAcmVibWEubW4ub3JnKQ==
=/qHx
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Anonymous Remailer <ghio@kaiwan.com>
1000/260935 1994/06/03
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3a

mQCKAi3vhFUAAAED6KSE5JwFAstBYAUEASfQCEr1wA+1YsWZl7nlNBA8Xq4YSwlg
eLCy9oiTDisxsxxxcbQdMtBTFcgQ2GVq7NhhjCEQkRzFRzPOG87T+0aUSufqD2RC
PYnwacPDpiTUe/TobHMs/Ov+yDuji0bIacveflubU8DvHLjHgI58Jgk1AAURtCRB
bm9ueW1vdXMgUmVtYWlsZXIgPGdoaW9Aa2Fpd2FuLmNvbT4=
=v5cv
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Tommy the Tourist <remailer@soda.berkeley.edu>
512/5E6875 1994/04/25
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3a

mQBNAi27mNAAAAECAONCUi/9jdl0SXGhOhT4Vvgl9uOYLgbOjU5kMXEkpFQriCYC
hWfNuhH8zESs9DFTMHCXUsXYrkkm/bHdhGheaHUABRO0LlRvbW15IHRoZSBUb3Vy
aXN0IDxyZW1haWxlckBzb2RhLmJlcmtlbGV5LmVkdT4=
=aoJM
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

vox.hacktic.nl
512/368B41 1994/04/29
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3a

mQBNAi3BYrsAAAECALbhXUJWvniV9bGz67lGnXqc3BOjRwVBV9pY9V6cJEfw/UOn
R9Bi0WWDelp20Z6u+CHijrq7iaRyTL2DNtw2i0EABRG0KlZvWCBSZW1haWwgU2Vy
dmljZSAgIDxhbm9uQHZveC5oYWNrdGljLm5sPokAlQIFEC3H6O5Z33QUjVaRPQEB
P0oEAJKp0uOhkx7uAfUQGpYLL3RlBR2xomvYdbf/ES7DMn2eAast+cO0YWkveNO1
6h+7K1/AFa3G/q2R0alOoFFYd4J/G5hn/NBdvp3KylhEC5OCe40Qb151NpkF++OE
dtUPu0qd9VlQPNhFzF37sdffkuk5Uaac1/UrPJLaYDQJYIBGtCpWb1ggUmVtYWls
IFNlcnZpY2UgPHJlbWFpbEB2b3guaGFja3RpYy5ubD6JAJQCBRAtx+lIWd90FI1W
kT0BAaBGA/ixWSQsCYDAOw8udVKzcqzjkzcvqDXoOTeoCRCW5yKFjLq/O+jydj0+
Y6sSHgQWeNQMYuLAq3PZWi66POhrXCrQNTdu2+Ni0Zq1UpjDE6D/6bg0ujvJd+Tr
rycJq8B7T81RR/nlkQNkWRji8b1GJ1QAz/NSWuskOKEgsH5fsdvL
=RRIj
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

1024/4BB86375 1994/06/03 remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.5

mQCNAi3u8pcAAAEEAKqUa4Ihy5KH8Q4Z5DOBRc/n/5RJUiMhbOqxRMmRq+0ycEqi
ogceTx4hksKuFa2iQe2Cre9VhB/Tq2Xf1/dSknGls10DkrpVTRoCPlJAJND6iAEA
iLZapFvwiQzQ/JVIunEjLf63UdBLGUTHqj4z7MGR++bGwn9SOX/Oy25LuGN1AAUR
tBpyZW1haWxlckBkczEud3Utd2llbi5hYy5hdIkAlQIFEC3u8/RYsqLFExS2VQEB
R9EEAIVRwgpI/CpCgptao0tVfd7xDVvFrxBnW4724caoZ3tyCEXLgbJnR250yZYZ
NKJzfsPcTzILUZ3WKAlsfdPdEaJZHsyRvBDxjdvUjLokQBqd/WyklZ4MibYu6Cod
z+PnKG0zVwA/gR+vQ4/xXw9T1oSf6YVW25bP3kkCOxR8mpHo
=Vriv
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

1024/FD5A2D 1994/06/16  The NEXUS-Berkeley Remailer <remail@c2.org>
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3a

mQCNAi3/6FIAAAEEANggWtLprhvPDAdv503F5vChmF5jadD16dBke2yuP5iJwt0i
X0eJC7dFoimNp03Cm7pkn5SkGr3i3hjtKLQGtneKNfdp29ELisOc9wMLiBMP46q3
Sr/9RseAt5Nnt4fW2Efi6xO8QLiMVG837gd5pEpXOqJ2FMCikEMvwOz0/VotAAUR
tCtUaGUgTkVYVVMtQmVya2VsZXkgUmVtYWlsZXIgPHJlbWFpbEBjMi5vcmc+iQCV
AgUQLf/owHi7eNFdXppdAQEctAP/aK+rTQxs5J8ev1ZtnYpGZPIEezQeC8z8kRdN
jUKF7CutVLy09izYDSdonuHFyWoHtLb1RUj5fGUFhOzwmJTMlTRzEx8i2a1bKdmQ
qPGNu2iVKIitkSSVZvz7vHXM+ZUFTSC4LGWsECukEONEeyGy+ehG3ON0vx1ATqY5
/ATzPpo=
=N0yt
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Global Remail Services Ltd. <usura@hacktic.nl>
1024-bit key, Key ID 1FFADA15, created 1994/07/22
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3

mQCNAi4wTh8AAAEEAMb9gl6NlZHy4FdjADel4d+C+Th7+inTOV4mEsKk+N/QfJAj
BN6YPnJ9bm+Ch19FrR1KeTwrpluP6J+GdJrMkVSosvIqBPpSRgOs7nvMhnn3Tnrn
uUFZVDYslQ1wRZvFbTpCEW8TzgVhGy6HMznxEC4ttnOq8pFRFUpL3asf+toVAAUR
tC5HbG9iYWwgUmVtYWlsIFNlcnZpY2VzIEx0ZC4gPHVzdXJhQGhhY2t0aWMubmw+
=+iYx
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----


The operation of this system of remailers is a group effort which relies on
the contributions of many generous people.  Please do not abuse the remailers.
If you have problems with a remailer, most of the remailer operators can be
contacted by sending mail to the remailer's address without a remailing
request header.  Otherwise, follow the instructions that come in the messages
from the remailer.  Do not send complaints to postmaster at the site.
Most of the remailers are run by people who are not the site administrators.
Sending to postmaster or the site admins will most likely just make them
annoyed at you, and won't get your problem resolved.

If you can run an anonymous remailer, please volunteer to do so.
Software is availiable from anonymous-FTP at
soda.berkeley.edu in the directory /pub/cypherpunks/remailer/
Other remailer software is availiable at chaos.bsu.edu
in the directory /pub/cypherpunks/remailer/
or contact me and I'll send you what you need.
The software can often be run on personal accounts;
Root or sysadmin access is not required in most cases.

There are two usenet forums for discussion of anonymous remailer systems,
alt.privacy.anon-server and alt.anonymous

The cypherpunks mailing list is a forum for discussing ways to promote
privacy via cryptography.  To join, send mail to cypherpunks-request@toad.com

Additional information on the anonymous remailers is availiable from
gopher://chaos.bsu.edu/

Path: io.org!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!ddsw1!panix!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!news.claremont.edu!kaiwan.com!usenet
From: ghio@kaiwan.com (Matthew Ghio)
Newsgroups: alt.2600,alt.privacy,alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.anonymous,alt.anonymous.messages
Subject: Anonymous Remailer
Date: 10 Aug 1994 03:46:48 GMT
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Lines: 5
Message-ID: <329ij8$6fa@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: kaiwan.kaiwan.com
Xref: io.org alt.2600:18836 alt.privacy:17773 alt.privacy.anon-server:558 alt.anonymous:216 alt.anonymous.messages:40

I guess it's FAQ time again...

If you want information on my anonymous remailer, send mail to ghio@kaiwan.com
with Subject: remailer-help
If you spell it right, the auto-reply daemon will answer you. :)