I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail@miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney@shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal@alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail@c2.org> eric pgp hash reord"; $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon@anon.penet.fi> penet post"; $remailer{"hacktic"} = "<remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"flame"} = "<remailer@flame.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut post reord"; $remailer{"rahul"} = "<homer@rahul.net> cpunk pgp hash filter"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster@remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"ford"} = "<remailer@bi-node.zerberus.de> cpunk pgp hash ksub ek"; $remailer{"robo"} = "<robo@c2.org> cpunk hash mix"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer@replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"rmadillo"} = "<remailer@armadillo.com> mix cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"ecafe"} = "<cpunk@remail.ecafe.org> cpunk mix"; $remailer{"wmono"} = "<wmono@valhalla.phoenix.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut"; $remailer{"shinobi"} = "<remailer@shinobi.alias.net> cpunk mix hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{"amnesia"} = "<amnesia@chardos.connix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ksub"; $remailer{"gondolin"} = "<mix@remail.gondolin.org> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{"tjava"} = "<remailer@tjava.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"pamphlet"} = "<pamphlet@idiom.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ?"; $remailer{'alpha'} = '<alias@alpha.c2.org> alpha pgp'; $remailer{'gondonym'} = '<alias@nym.gondolin.org> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"lead"} = "<mix@zifi.genetics.utah.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"treehole"} = "<remailer@mockingbird.alias.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"nemesis"} = "<remailer@meaning.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer@remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"vegas"} = "<remailer@vegas.gateway.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack@holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"ncognito"} = "<ncognito@gate.net> mix cpunk latent"; catalyst@netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura@replay.com is _not_ a remailer. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (c2 robo alpha) (gondolin gondonym) (flame hacktic replay) (alumni portal) Use "premail -getkeys pgpkeys@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu" to get PGP keys for the remailers. Fingering this address works too. Note: The remailer list now includes information for the alpha nymserver. Last update: Mon 6 May 96 6:45:06 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- shinobi remailer@shinobi.alias.net *-*--*+***+* 38:35 99.99% alpha alias@alpha.c2.org +-+++--+.+++ 1:16:28 99.99% hacktic remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl +******++*** 8:55 99.98% portal hfinney@shell.portal.com ####*-##-### 11:44 99.93% haystack haystack@holy.cow.net #+*-**-*#*# 21:39 99.90% lead mix@zifi.genetics.utah.edu ++++++++++++ 38:55 99.88% ecafe cpunk@remail.ecafe.org #* -####*# 30:12 99.76% mix mixmaster@remail.obscura.com __._.--++++ 13:34:46 99.68% extropia remail@miron.vip.best.com -----_.--.- 11:22:42 99.61% exon remailer@remailer.nl.com ##****+***** 2:29 99.53% flame remailer@flame.alias.net -+++ .----+ 6:11:21 99.42% alumni hal@alumni.caltech.edu +*## +#-### 20:24 99.35% penet anon@anon.penet.fi _...____ . 54:35:54 99.35% c2 remail@c2.org +++++- +++++ 1:18:29 98.98% amnesia amnesia@chardos.connix.com --______. - 49:22:17 98.80% vegas remailer@vegas.gateway.com #- .---###** 4:29:32 98.30% replay remailer@replay.com ****+ +*** 5:21 93.85% treehole remailer@mockingbird.alias.net +-----+ 2:56:21 90.38% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien