Istvan Oszaraz von Keszi writes:
My question is what is necessary, to create an address for the remailer? I'd like it addressed as something other than my personal account. Do I contact my sysadmins for a new address, or is this something which is user configurable.
This reminds me of an idea: why not create "symbolic links" between pseudonyms chosen by the remailer operators and their actual physical sites? The idea is this: fred@uptight.org wants to run a remailer, but he doesn't want his managers at "uptight.org" to know he's advertising this service (e.g., by postings in a public place, by the finger of remailer@soda.berkeley.edu, etc.). He wants a "dead drop" to forward to him mail intended to be remailed. What he wants is an alias at another site, run probably by a sympathetic Cypherpunks who has more control over his own site. So, joe@uptight.org arranges with eric@freedom.org to establish this alias. (eric@freedom.org knows what's going on....the only security is that based on the trust between eric and joe.) I know, I know, this is "security through obscurity." (In a sense.) And eric@freedom.org might _just as well_ run the second or third or nth remailer _himself_. But the advantage of there being _many_ physical people acting as remailers is still there. And it encourages people who might shy away from running a remailer to do so. The overall security is at least not any lower than if joe@uptight.org got the remailer traffic directly. There are other wrinkles. I can give more of my thoughts if there's any interest. Not to volunteer anybody's copious spare time, but I have a hunch a Perl program could implement this automatic reflector easily. Maybe some mailers can already handle this (I don't see any commands in elm, my mailer, that can do selective bouncing/forwarding....kind of like a kill file, except the targetted address gets forwarded.) Any thoughts? --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."