-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I apologize for being so terse in my first message. This is not a red herring. The organization that has approached me is very pro-privacy and anonymity. I see nothing but good coming from this venture. I will be very active in the development of the commercial version of Mixmaster. Let me be crystal clear. 1) I will not support any version of Mixmaster that is weakened. 2) All future clients will be able to generate the current message format. 3) All future servers will be able to read the current message format. 4) There will always be a free version of the client with source code. While I have not discussed it, I can not imagine that there would not also be a free version of the server code (with source). Without remailers what is the point of the client software? At 8:45 PM 9/14/95, ROBO Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
Flame Remailer <remailer@flame.alias.net> wrote:
Subject: Mixmaster status
There has been an offer to purchase and commercially develop Mixmaster. This will hasten the development of Mixmaster for other platforms (e.g. Dos, Windows Macintosh), and bring significant improvements to the interface, but I will not compromise on the level of security provided by Mixmaster. Free client software will continue to be available.
This could be the big breakthrough for remailers, finally thrusting them out of the hobbyist's closet into the corporate world.
I wonder. Where is the commercial market for remailers? Who has an application for them except hobbyinst? Why would there be a commercial incentive to run a mixmaster server, or even a client?
Could this "offer" be a red herring?
I wondered the same thing myself. It would certainly be a more cost-effective way for the NSA to compromise Mixmaster technology than by brute force.
Consider this scenario ... Mixmaster get's bought by the Acme Crypto Company of Ft. Meade, MD. They "improve" it, and offer a new version. It's even FREE (for non-commerical use)! But their "improvements" make it incompatible with previous versions, and so you have to upgrade. The new "commercial" version comes with no SOURCE CODE, of course...
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