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MHWayne

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Apr 22, 1994, 3:39:02 PM4/22/94

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I am trying to get info on the anonymous remailers on the NEt. I have sent a
message to he...@anon.penet.fi, but have gotten no response.

Anyone out there with any additional info on this?

Thanks
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Iolo Davidson

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Apr 23, 1994, 6:05:44 AM4/23/94

In article <2p994m$k...@search01.news.aol.com> mhw...@aol.com "MHWayne" writes:

> I am trying to get info on the anonymous remailers on the NEt. I have sent a
> message to he...@anon.penet.fi, but have gotten no response.

Penet.fi have been slow recently. Here is the help file they send.

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From dae...@anon.penet.fi Sat Apr 09 21:37:35 1994

German text available from ger...@anon.penet.fi (deu...@anon.penet.fi).
Italian text available from ita...@anon.penet.fi (ital...@anon.penet.fi).

The anon.penet.fi Anonymous Server
==================================

Yes, another anonymous server. Why? Well, several well-known servers have
bitten the dust recently. And most of them have served only a very limited
subset of newsgroups, and mail only to "registered", anonymous users.

Due to reasons too complicated to mention here I wanted to set up an anonymous
server for the scandinavian user community. I got hold of a pre-release copy
of one of the server packages. As the version I got relied heavily on the
advanced features of MMDFII, I had to modify it quite a bit. While hacking
around, I removed the restriction of only supporting selected newsgroups.
Within a week of startup, the server had been discovered by transatlantic
users, and more recent stats show european users are definitely a minority.

So what does the anon server really do? Well, it provides a front for
sending mail messages and posting news items anonymously. As you send your
very first message to the server, it automatically allocates you an id of
the form anNNN, and sends you a message containing the allocated id. This id
is used in all your subsequent anon posts/mails. Any mail messages sent to
you...@anon.penet.fi gets redirected to your original, real address. Any
reply is of course anonymized in the same way, so the server provides a
double-blind. You will not know the true identity of any user, unless she
chooses to reveal her identity explicitly.

In the anonymization process all headers indicating the true originator are
removed, and an attempt is made to remove any automatically-included
signatures, by looking for a line starting with two dashes (--), and zapping
everything from there on. But if your signature starts with anything else,
it's your own responsibility to remove it from your messages.

There are two basic ways to use the system. The easiest way is by sending a
message to reci...@anon.penet.fi:

To: alt.sex.b...@anon.penet.fi

To: an9...@anon.penet.fi

To: he...@anon.penet.fi

Of course, in the case of mailing to a known user, you have to use addresses of
the form user%host....@anon.penet.fi, or the pretty obscure source addressing
construct of @anon.penet.fi:us...@host.domain. These constructs are not
necessarily handled properly by all mail systems, so I strongly recommend the
"X-Anon-To:" approach in these cases. This works by you sending a message to
"an...@anon.penet.fi", including a X-Anon-To: header line containing the desired
recipient. But this really has to be a field in the message header, before the
first empty line in the message. So:

To: an...@anon.penet.fi
X-Anon-To: alt.sex.needlework,rec.masturbation

To: an...@anon.penet.fi
X-Anon-To: ja...@host.bar.edu

Valid recipients in both cases are fully qualified user addresses in RFC-822
format (us...@host.domain), anon user id's (anNNN), newsgroup names
(alt.sex.paperclips) or one of the "special" user names of ping, nick, help,
admin and stat.

Sending to "ping" causes a short reply to be sent confirming (and
allocating, if needed) your anon id. "nick" takes the contents of the
Subject: header and installs it as your nickname. If you have a nickname, it
appears in the From: header in the anonymized message along with your anon
id. "help" returns this text, and stat gives some statistics about the
system. Mail to "admin" goes directly to me unanonymized, and can be used to
report problems. If you want to send mail to me anonymously, you can use
"an0".

When crossposting to several newsgroups, you can list several newsgroups
separated by commas as recipients, but this only works using the X-Anon-To:
header. References: headers do work, so they can (and should) be used to
maintain reply threads.

Ah yes, please remember that the posting takes place at my local site, so you
can only post to groups that are received at penet.fi. I get all "worldwide"
groups, but various exotic local groups don't make it here. I have gotten
a couple of comments about permitting anonymous postings to technical groups.
I can only answer that I believe very firmly that it's not for me to dictate
how other people ought to behave. Somebody might have a valid reason for
posting anonymously to a group I might consider "technical". But remember
anonymous postings are a privilege, and use them accordingly. I believe adult
human beings can behave responsibly. Please don't let me down.

As the server was originally intended to be used by scandinavians, it
includes help files for various languages. This works by using the
language in question as the address. So to get the german help file,
send a message to ger...@anon.penet.fi (or deu...@anon.penet.fi).
Support for new languages is added every now and then, when I find
volunteers to do the translation. Any new ones?

The user-id database is based on RFC822-ized forms of your originating
address. This may cause problems for some users, either because their site
is not properly registered in the name servers, resulting in
non-deterministic addresses, or because their mail router doesn't hide the
identity of individual workstations, resulting in different originating
addresses depending on which workstation you mail from. Talk to your
administrator. If that doesn't help, let me know, and I will make a manual
re-mapping.

You might wonder about the sense of using a server out somewhere, as the
song goes, "so close to Russia, so far from Japan". Well, the polar bears
don't mind, and the ice on the cables don't bother too much :-)
Well, in fact, as we live in a wonderfully networked world, the major delay
is not going over the atlantic, but my local connection to the Finnish EUnet
backbone, fuug.fi. Once you reach a well-connected host, such as
uunet.uu.net, there's a direct SMTP connection to fuug.fi. My connection to
fuug.fi is currently a polled connection over ISDN, soon to be upgraded to
on-demand-SMTP/NNTP. But for now, expect a turn-around delay of 2-4 hours for
trans-atlantic traffic.

Short of having everyone run a public-key cryptosystem such as PGP,
there is no way to protect users from malicious administrators. You have to
trust my personal integrity. Worse, you have to trust the administrators on
every mail routing machine on the way, as the message only becomes anonymous
once it reaches my machine. Malicious sysadmins and/or crackers could spy on
SMTP mail channels, sendmail queues and mail logs. But as there are more
than 3000 messages being anonymized every day, you have to be pretty perverted
to scan everything...

Another thing is mail failures. I've had cases of mail routers doing the wrong
thing with % addresses, "shortcutting" the path to the destination site.
This could cause your mail to go to the final destination without ever
touching my server (and thus without getting anonymized). This can be avoided
by using the X-Anon-To: method.

And if your return address bounces for some reason (nameservers down,
temporary configuration failures etc.), the original sender and/or
postmasters on the way might get error messages showing your true
identity, and maybe even the full message.

There is at least one known way to discover the anon id of a user. It involves
being able to falsify your real identity, so it is not too easy to use, and it
doesn't reveal the real address lurking behind an anon id, but it can be used
to discover what anon id a certain user is using. To fix this problem, the
server requires that you use a password when you try to mail to a
non-anonymous user.

First you have to set a password by mailing to pass...@anon.penet.fi, with
a message containing only your password. The password can be any string of
upper- or lowercase characters, numbers and spaces.

Once you have set your password, you must include it in all your messages, in
a "X-Anon-Password:" line. As with the X-Anon-To: line, it can be either a
part of the header or as the first non-empty line of the message text.

So your first message might look like this:

To: pass...@anon.penet.fi

XYZZY99998blarf

And your subsequent messages might look like something like this:

To: an...@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Test...
X-Anon-To: f...@bar.fie
X-Anon-Password: XYZZY99998blarf

If you find this is too much of a hassle, and don't care too much about the
confidentiality of your anon id, you can set the password to "none", in which
case the server doesn't require you to have a password.

If you suddenly discover that the server requires a password for posting stuff
etc, somebody has managed to use your account and set a password. In that
case, contact ad...@anon.penet.fi.

Crackers are just too clever. Undoubtedly somebody is going to come
up with some novel method.... Not much I can do about that...

If you intend to mail/post something that might cost you your job or
marriage or inheritance, _please_ send a test message first. The software
has been pretty well tested, but some mailers on the way (and out of my
control) screw things up. And if you happen to find a problem, _please_ for
the sake of all the other users, _let me know asap_.

And _please_ use the appropriate test newsgroups, such as alt.test or
misc.test. Yes, _you_ might get excited by reading 2000 "This is a test.."
messages on alt.sex, but I warn you that most psychologists consider this
rather aberrant...

And remember this is a service that some people (in groups such as
alt.sexual.abuse.recovery) _need_. Please don't do anything stupid that
would force me to close down the service. As I am running my own company,
there is very little political pressure anyone can put on me, but if
somebody starts using the system for criminal activities, the authorities
might be able to order me to shut down the service. I don't particularly
want to find out, however...

If you think these instructions are unclear and confusing, you are right. If
you come up with suggestions for improving this text, please mail me! Remember
English is my third language...

Safe postings!

Julf

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Johan Helsingius Kuusikallionkuja 3 B 25 02210 Espoo Finland Yourp
net: ju...@penet.fi bellophone: int. +358 0400 2605 fax: int. +358 013900166

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Forwarded by:
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Iolo Davidson
(no club, lone wolf)

-=Xenon=-

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Apr 23, 1994, 4:48:09 PM4/23/94

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Please do not e-mail me asking about remailers. Do e-mail me with Subject
"Bomb me!" for Gary Edstrom's PGP FAQ, and my "Here's How to MacPGP!"
guide, which are also available from ftp.netcom.com in /pub/gbe and
/pub/qwerty.

This is file "Remailer.list" in /pub/qwerty. Join the cypherpunks list if
you want more info. It is getting dated, as I have stopped maintaining it
and am no longer on the Cypherpunks list (why don't they echo to
Usenet?). If anyone feels like updating it, send me a copy. There's a bit
of similar info in the PGP FAQ as well.

-=Xenon=-

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Remailer.list:

Finger h...@soda.berkeley.edu for a blurb on remailers, and a list of the
ones that are still working.

From Usenet:

I maintain a FAQ on the anonymous remailers, which lists over a dozen
alternative anonymous services. Many of them are much faster than
anon.penet.fi, because they do not have such a heavy load. You can get
the info by sending mail to: mg5n+re...@andrew.cmu.edu
My software is set up to automatically send it back when it receives
your request, so sending a blank message is sufficient. I update the
info every few weeks or so.

Here's the latest info file:

--------------------

This info on internet anonymous remailers is maintained by
Matthew Ghio <Gh...@andrew.cmu.edu>
Last Updated: Mar 4 1994
The newest version of this document can be obtained by sending mail
to: mg5n+re...@andrew.cmu.edu
Automated software will email you a copy.

Notice: There have been many changes lately to various remailers.
I try to keep this info as up to date as possible, but I may have missed
something. If there are any errors, please let me know.

The standard cypherpunks anonymous remailers are:

hfi...@shell.portal.com
cata...@netcom.com
now...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
rema...@chaos.bsu.edu
h...@soda.berkeley.edu
ebr...@jarthur.claremont.edu
rema...@merde.dis.org
h...@alumni.cco.caltech.edu
rema...@rebma.mn.org

All of these allow you to send anonymous mail by adding the header
Request-Remailing-To: and sending to one of the above addresses.
Most (but not all) of these remailers also accept Anon-To: in place of
Request-Remailing-To.

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.

rem...@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 are at the end of this document.

The bsu remailers require that you place the Subject: header in the body
of the message, after the two colons and the Request-Remailing-To:
line. These remailers also allow you to insert a Reply-To: line, so that
you can have responses sent to you via an anonymous forwarding address.
To get an anonymous forwarding address, send mail to
mg5n+...@andrew.cmu.edu

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

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

group...@cs.utexas.edu
group.na...@decwrl.dec.com
group...@news.demon.co.uk
group...@news.cs.indiana.edu

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 headers
of the messages that come 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 upset with 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 program code is availiable at vangogh.vis.colostate.edu
in the directory /pub/nate/remailer-GUI/cpremailer.tar.Z
The software can usually 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

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This is not completed, and may not BE completed. If you can fill in any
of the blanks, thanks. -=Xenon=-

Full Disclosure Remailer List.

Remailer Fast? OpLog SysLog Subj Batch RD NL CPU Phys PGP BitB ...and?
--------- ------ ----- ------ ---- ----- -- -- --- ---- --- ---- ----------
bsu-cs + ? ?/? + ? ? ? ? ? 23a -
catalyst + N? SM/MQ - - ? - PA M 23a -
choas + ? ?/? + ? ? ? ? ? - -
dis.org -/-- ? ?/? - ? ? ? ? ? 23a -
extropia +/- ? SM + - - - Pr M 23a -
jarthur +/-- St SM/MQ - -/+ ? ? Un ? 23a -
menudo -- N SM - t1 "?" Y Un H 23a -
merde -/-- ? ?/? - ? ? ? ? ? - -
penet.fi -- St SM - t? 24 + Pr H - -
remba -- ? ?/? ? ? ? ? ? ? 23a -
shell ++/+/- St ?/? - ? ? ? ? ? 23a -
soda ++/- St+? ?/? - ? ? ? ? ? -

Subj: Strips Subject header?
NL: Non-linear remailing? 123->231.
RD: Random delay added (max, in hours)?
Batch: Batched remailing? t2 means twice daily. n5 means after 5 messages.
CPU: Pr = private. PA = account on public access machine. Un = university.
Phys: Physical security of the CPU, especially at night. H/M/L.
BitB: BitBucket feature?

Fast?:
++ <5 min
+ 5-10 min.
- ~10-30 min delay
-- Pinging isn't practical due to long delays. Probably reliable though.
+/- Sometimes +, sometimes -.
Normal internet mail delays are common, and are not equivalent in the two
directions between any two remailers. Mail still gets through.

OpLog:
F: full copies of all mail is archived. My large volume mailing should
help put a stop to this.
St: Stats logs of when mail was remailed.
St+: Stats logs of when and where mail was remailed.
St-: simple counter.
N: operator keeps no logs.
C: Simple counter.

SysLog:
SM: sendmail logs of when and where mail was exchanged. Root access needed.
MQ: mailqueue accessible by anyone on the site. Could make logs.

I have chosen nicknames based on a string common to both the outgoing
address and to the address you see on an incoming message from the remailer.

bsu-cs now...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
catalyst cata...@netcom.com
chaos rema...@chaos.bsu.edu
dis.org rema...@dis.org
extropia rem...@extropia.wimsey.com
jarthur ebr...@jarthur.claremont.edu
menudo nob...@Menudo.UH.EDU
merde rema...@merde.dis.org
penet.fi anon.penet.fi
shell hfi...@shell.portal.com
soda h...@soda.berkeley.edu

Discontinued remailers still on some lists out there:

h...@pmantis.berkeley.edu
h...@cicada.berkeley.edu
pha...@mead.u.washington.edu
ele...@rosebud.ee.uh.edu
rem...@tamaix.tamu.edu
sam...@netcom.com
sam...@berkeley.edu (spelling?)
cdod...@indirect.com
rema...@entropy.linet.org??
rem...@tamaix.tamu.edu?
na...@vis.colostate.edu
qwe...@netcom.com
ele...@rosebud.ee.uh.edu

Background on each remailer:

bsu-cs:
Run by Chael Hall.
Machine: ??
Problems policy: ?? Contact ??
Software: ??
Security: ??
Comments:
History: ??

catalyst:
Run by Scott Collins.
Machine: personal dial-up account on Netcom.
Problems policy: Outgoing address blocking, with proof of ID.
Contact cata...@netcom.com.
Software: Customized Hal's ?
Security: Netcom keeps sendmail logs, which ro...@netcom.com can read.
Any Netcom user could also compile his own sendmail logs, by
constantly logging mail as it arrives and leaves.
Comments:
History: ??

chaos:
Run by Chael Hall.
Machine: ??
Problems policy: ?? Contact ??
Software: ??
Security:
Comments: finger remail...@chaos.bsu.edu for info using any remailer. ??
gopher chaos.bsu.edu for a collection of info about Cypherpunks.
Comments:
History: ??

dis.org:
Run by Peter Shipley.
Machine: ??
Problems policy: ?? Contact ??
Software: ??
Security: ??
Comments:
History: ??

extropia:
Run by Miron Cuperman.
Machine: ??
Problems policy: ?? Contact mi...@extropia.wimsey.com.
Software: ??
Security: "Logs" kept encyrpted with Miron's public key.
Comments: Only accepts PGP remailing. ::/Encrypted:PGP header is optional.
Privately owned, in Canada.
Not directly connected (delays possible).
History: ??

jarthur:
Run by Eli Brandt.
Machine: Sequent Symmetry.
Problems policy: Destination blocking is available w/ sufficient ID.
Contact ebr...@jarthur.claremont.edu.
Software: The usual, tweaked for MMDF. Hal's.
Security: jarthur keeps sendmail logs.
Comments: Although jarthur doesn't batch, its connection often results in
outgoing mail getting batched out anyway (1-3 hours delay).
History: Set up late '92. PGP added mid '93.

menudo:
Run by Karl Barrus.
Machine: University machine.
Problems policy: see policy at gopher site. Contact klba...@owlnet.rice.edu
or ele...@menudo.uh.edu.
Software: Modified Hal's.
Security: Stores messages and sends them out randomly at midnight.
Pads messages to 1K with random stuff. (?)
Comments: elee9sf@menudo accepts RIPEM encryption.
elee6ue@rosebud requires "digital cash" (basically random
strings I made).
Errors on elee9sf@menudo are forwarded klba...@owlnet.rice.edu
where they are deleted. I still get mail at that address which is
why I have it forwarded and not just dropped.
History: No comment.

merde:
Run by Peter Shipley.
Maching: ??
Problems policy: ?? Contact ??
Software: ??
Security: ??
Comments:
History: ??

penet.fi:
Run by Julf (Johan Helsingus).
Machine: ?? Operator owned.
Problems policy: Account revokation. Contact ??@anon.penet.fi.
Software: custom.
Security:
Comments: By far the most popular remailer, dwarfing in a day what the
entire Cypherpunk remailers combined carry in a month. Supports
easy return addresses as well as non-anonymous mailing to
someone's anonymous address (na1234... instead of an1234...).
Your real address is kept on Julf's hard disk, but is fairly safe
there, especially if you do not abuse your anonymity to harass
someone. On a bad day your mail and especially Usenet posts may
be delayed up to a day. Very reliable though. Sends error
messages back to you for failed mail. Limited to 48K mail.
History: ??

rembe:
Run by Bill (O'Hanlon?).
Machine: ? Privately owned.
Problems policy: ?? Contact ??
Software: ??
Security: ??
Comments: Not directly connected (delays?).
History: Second oldest remailer.

shell:
Run by Hal Finney.
Machine: ??
Problems policy: ?? Contact hfi...@shell.portal.com
Software: Hal's Remailer.
Security: ??
Comments: whitehouse.gov blocked and fully logged.
h...@alumni.caltech.edu forwards all mail to shell.
History: ??

soda:
Run by Eric Hollander.
Machine: ??
Problems policy: ?? Blocking of addresses. Mail sent to problem causer.
Contact h...@soda.berkeley.edu.
Software: custom. ??
Security: Was keeping full logs till recently. ??
Comments: The remailer 0...@uclink.berkeley.edu takes messages and sends
them out in random order, forwarding them thru soda.
History: ??

Remailer Public Keys:

Anonymous Remailer <cata...@netcom.com>
1024-bit key, Key ID C0EA49, created 1993/08/30
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Version: 2.3

mQCNAiyBTjoAAAEEAMIKpRnqXb82TOQpx/vEDwGPXndXaxtfiZeSLZqullWCEbd4
YkCHG/F1i3Wzq4Pgz6nSbb58vMS5RonY7+ZC6IHI8zBpp9oMW3u+lqbk8Z61x49d
xwAKlE7Zsk/pOeGrqbsidm83WUqlSGgyOpvq0A8LzT4+WPra8ZvHue9jwOpJAAUR
tChBbm9ueW1vdXMgUmVtYWlsZXIgPGNhdGFseXN0QG5ldGNvbS5jb20+iQCVAgUQ
LIaqhIOA7OpLWtYzAQH4sgQAsc6s3X75LwWTV65Dw76wdSRKuoI57F2ZZWjSOIQK
n1CWUn6YEYOIs3kkdHNd0uz9Mspoy+6BsnWGSW11r8k88VThEoVpJ74o91apR1ML
yCEdD7O/+nZK8N484+mN2BcKOdeze4QvgTt+qHHUd+Q5alW9VfXtbNImmSnI3FC/
8n4=
=Hh6a
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Remailing Service <rema...@dis.org>
512-bit key, Key ID 64E8A7, created 1993/03/05
Also known as: Anonymous Remailer <rema...@utter.dis.org>
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3
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=v3Hk
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Remailer <rem...@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-----

jarthur remailer c/o <ebr...@jarthur.claremont.edu>
512-bit key, Key ID 7D154B, created 1993/04/04
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3

mQBNAiu+hVUAAAECAMVjEfl2IMNgSOJ+/fx1V6EbH50ofa6K4r1PBKMmkcHQextP
ghwC4lXIgaAWUlLJ9x61+qf4jB5fpNUZLrF9FUsABRG0NWphcnRodXIgcmVtYWls
ZXIgIGMvbyA8ZWJyYW5kdEBqYXJ0aHVyLmNsYXJlbW9udC5lZHU+iQCVAgUQK8M/
BIOA7OpLWtYzAQGJRAP9GIVi0qoQW4bjU9sikIPG4zIEbQ9O3rU1vd2uCrrnGQMM
tdE9NoOx4umoVZKYTpCc96TlFQetb2UVd9JhaayXO7+nwNNHYgApkRJboolq9UzU
wCRBA8k1EMAkdzCjzYglpZIQJz2yNP50Izu7g2LMbC1pHQX3CHVL7YlQrKGNLz4=
=ItNk
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Remailer (rema...@rebma.mn.org)
1024-bit key, Key ID BA80A9, created 1992/11/26
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3
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=jbyA
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Remailing Service <hfi...@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-----

Chris Walker

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Apr 23, 1994, 5:50:39 PM4/23/94

In <2p994m$k...@search01.news.aol.com> mhw...@aol.com writes:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> I am trying to get info on the anonymous remailers on the NEt. I have sent a
> message to he...@anon.penet.fi, but have gotten no response.

Well, the lag time at anon.penet.fi is pretty hefty, like 18-24 hours. I
guess it has to do with the load there. I acccidentally spelled anon ann once
when using anon.penet.fi, and it bounced in about 5 minutes, from the finland
hub, so Ifigure that the lag time msut be site based.

>
> Anyone out there with any additional info on this?
>
> Thanks
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: 2.3
>
> iQCVAgUBLbfhqDIAcJ9oIU2VAQHtowP9EsHwXUG5O5SvqN7KAfyGrzPuTi4+9WcE
> 11WLx9A124TbZuANZasP9t98jYPINY/tzk1EHwGQ7+AIkW3g26WDErkl2bn09O2g
> wywcORNy6NA9nILOgz2RbxMoA0/RSxmnlDtIsV+sgMXNUZ56SyLa/nWzL1+dVYnb
> eIrn+cX7uPg=
> =zqhG
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>

__
|
| PGP key available by finger, or from a public key server near you.
| "Women..... Can't live with 'em...... Pass the beer nuts."
| - Norm Peterson.

IGOR

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Apr 27, 1994, 11:57:05 AM4/27/94

In article <2p994m$k...@search01.news.aol.com>, mhw...@aol.com (MHWayne) writes:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> I am trying to get info on the anonymous remailers on the NEt. I have sent a
> message to he...@anon.penet.fi, but have gotten no response.
>
> Anyone out there with any additional info on this?

Try an...@anon.penet.fi or try pi...@anon.penet.fi

Bob

Anonymous

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Apr 28, 1994, 9:28:52 PM4/28/94

Try fingering remail...@chaos.bsu.edu

It also has the PGP keys for the remailers that support it.

Michael Brandt Handler

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Apr 28, 1994, 6:32:03 PM4/28/94

And be *really* patient. People have been overzealous in using the
service, and it is currently overloaded, with a response time (for me) of
about 18 hours or so... If I remember correctly, though, the owner said
that a hardware upgrade was coming in soon...

--
==========================================================================
| Michael Brandt Handler | <gre...@netaxs.com> | Philadelphia, PA |
==========================================================================

Steve Kneizys

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May 1, 1994, 1:58:22 PM5/1/94

There are other anon re-mailers that may be of interest. Here is an info
file on them:
----------------------------------------------------------

This info on internet anonymous remailers is maintained by
Matthew Ghio <Gh...@andrew.cmu.edu>

Last Updated: Apr 12 1994

The newest version of this document can be obtained by sending mail
to: mg5n+re...@andrew.cmu.edu
Automated software will email you a copy.

...or via finger: remail...@chaos.bsu.edu

I try to keep this info as up to date as possible, but I may have missed

something. If there are any errors, or if you have anything to suggest or
contribute, please let me know.

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:

hfi...@shell.portal.com
cata...@netcom.com
now...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
rema...@chaos.bsu.edu
rema...@soda.berkeley.edu
ebr...@jarthur.claremont.edu
rema...@merde.dis.org
rema...@rebma.mn.org
rper...@nyx.cs.du.edu
rper...@nyx10.cs.du.edu
h...@alumni.caltech.edu

Encryption keys can be found below.

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. One common use of this feature is to add
a Reply-To: line, so that replies can be redirected to you via an anonymous

forwarding address. To get an anonymous forwarding address, send mail to

mg5n+...@andrew.cmu.edu For more information about this remailer,
send mail to mg5n+rema...@andrew.cmu.edu

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

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

group...@cs.utexas.edu
group.na...@decwrl.dec.com
group...@news.demon.co.uk
group...@news.cs.indiana.edu

The mail-to-news gateways do not anonymize messages; you must use a remailer
if you want the message to be posted anonymously.

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

<rema...@dis.org>
512-bit key, Key ID 64E8A7, created 1993/03/05
Also known as: Anonymous Remailer <rema...@utter.dis.org>
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3

<rem...@extropia.wimsey.com>

1024-bit key, Key ID B5A32F, created 1992/12/13
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3

jarthur remailer <ebr...@jarthur.claremont.edu>

512-bit key, Key ID 7D154B, created 1993/04/04
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3

Anonymous Remailer <hfi...@shell.portal.com>

510-bit key, Key ID 5620D5, created 1992/11/15
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.3

Remailing Service <h...@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 (rema...@rebma.mn.org)
1024/BA80A9 1992/11/26
----
Version: 2.3a

-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Anonymous Remailer <cata...@netcom.com>
1024/C0EA49 1993/08/30

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Version: 2.3a

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 usually 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

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

Oh, BTW: To get PGP (Pretty Good Privacy),
FTP ftp.funet.fi /pub/unix/security/crypt/pgp23A.zip
or demon.co.uk /pub/pgp/

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