From address, something like "yeltsy@kremlin.vax.ru". I tried chaining this to penet to post to newsgroups, but my anonymous messages never appeared in the newsgroups. This was because, I think, penet sends a confirmation back to the sender. Since "kremlin.vax" is not in penet's net tables, this would cause
On Feb 23, Hal said: Unless Eli's suggestion works - having our remailers put out a random "From:" line (perhaps just on mail to Penet?) might cause Penet to issue a new pseudonym for that apparent new user. This would be kind of wasteful from Penet's perspective - all those pseudonyms are never going to be re-used. But it might allow this form of chaining, without compromising the pseudonym of the remailer operator. I would be cautious about a random "From:" line. I think penet will probably reject input that at least has does not have a valid (but not necessarily truthful) return address. For a while, Miron Cuperman's wimsey remailer was generating a bogus the confirmation send to fail; my hypothesis is that this also causes the newsgroup post at penet to fail. One good From address to generate, at least for wimsey, would be pool0@extropia.wimsey.com but you would need to add some boilerplate explaining to the recipient that "pool0" is a group address and a return message may be seen by up to (number? 10-100?) persons unless it is encrypted. Wimsey could also establish its own penet password and automatically insert it whenever it detected a "to" address ending in penet.fi. It could also substitute the penet anonxxxx address for "pool0" in the above boilerplate. This would allow a penet return to pool0. Note that I don't mind too much if people know that they can reach Edgar Swank through pool0, because pool0 is also an address for many other people, so I can "plausibly deny" that any particular message addressed to pool0 is for me. I'd like to point out that so far the wimsey remailer is the only useful remailer from my point of view because it's the only one which allows me to delete the automatic sig. This is because it only forwards encrypted text and discards any appended unencrypted text. The other remailers were supposed to add a "kill line" to do the same thing, but as far as I know this never happened. -- edgar@spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Silicon Valley, Ca