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ANNOUNCEMENT: nym.alias.net enters beta testing
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I'm pleased to announce that the nym.alias.net pseudonym server has
now entered the beta-testing phase, and seems quite stable.
Nym.alias.net offers several interesting features:
* Public-Key encryption of all received mail. Once mail has gone
through nym.alias.net, no one can read it except you--even if you
have been sending your mail to a newsgroup and your reply-block
and remailers become compromised.
* Support for multiple, probabilistically-weighted, reply blocks.
These can be used for redundancy or to foil traffic analysis with
decoys.
* Replay detection. This foils replay attacks, but can also be used
for higher reliability if you send redundant copies of a message
through different remailer chains.
* An option to receive only fixed-length messages (by splitting up
large messages and padding small ones with garbage).
* An option to sign mail you send with the remailer's public key, so
as to give some assurance of authenticity without having to
publish your own PGP public key.
* Support for finger [pending DNS approval]. You can choose to make
your nym's PGP public key available to all who finger its E-mail
address. Right now you can test this by fingering at 18.26.0.252.
In addition, experimental nym.alias.net support for Premail is now
available (in the form of a patch to premail 0.44). With this patch,
premail will store your nym's PGP key on encrypted keyrings. This
allows you to publish a PGP key for your pseudonym without the danger
of your identity being revealed to someone with access to your main
PGP keyrings (or a backup copy of them).
To obtain more information about nym.alias.net, finger
<[email protected]> or send mail to <[email protected]>. To
get information about using premail with nym.alias.net, finger
<[email protected]> or send mail to
<[email protected]>.
These documents are also available on the new nym.alias.net web page:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/n.a.n.html
Please report all bugs to <[email protected]>. I'll also be glad to
consider feature requests, particularly from anyone interested in
developing any more client software.
Enjoy!
[email protected]
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