Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
"Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org> writes:
It seems to me that the purpose of a remailer is to strip the headers, including the FROM header, not to put in fake headers. Until someone can explain it to me, I'd consider the idea of adding a FROM header to anonymous mail to be asinine.
Best I can tell, the only reasonable good purpose for this is to create a persistent nym identity without a reply to capability. Well, remailer software cannot support everything I suppose. (Even if Cracker may apparently support this)
I would think the best way to put in a persistent nym capability would be to database the PGP key id's along with the persistent identity. Then the remailer could produce lines like
From: "Monty Cantsin" <anon@anon.efga.org>
Persistent identities would be created by sending a signed PGP message that includes both the PGP public key and the persistent identity. Since the identity server would not database email addresses, only PGP key id's, and only work for signed messages, there should be no problem with people worrying about the remailer being compromised. This also keeps someone from stealing another's reputation capital.
Igor's STUMP has a similar feature, although I don't think a lot of posters currently use it.
CBI news agency used to do it until it got tired of signing non-ASCII messages. One of the groups that uses STUMP went even farther and decided to allow only PGP signed anonymous messages. I was really surprised when I saw that provision. - Igor.