-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Y'all: Version ALPHA 1.3 of the WinSock Remailer is now available at Lance Cottrell's Export Controlled Crypto Site at: http://www.obscura.com/crypto.html After you get past the crypto control and into ftp site, look in the DOS directory for the file WSA13.ZIP. You can find more information on my webpage at: http://www.c2.net/~winsock/ which I will be updating tonight. What's new in this release: - -------------------------- 1) Support for e-mail accounts that are "Shared" or "Exclusive". This function allows a remailer operator to share a personal e-mail account with the remailer. The way this function works is that messages without valid remailer headers are NOT deleted from the mail spool file (the file where your messages are stored at your Internet Service Provider). Instead, the remailer only deletes messages with valid remailer headers from the mail spool, allowing another e-mail client (such as Eudora or Pegasus Mail) to retrieve the non-remailer messages. If the e-mail account is "Exclusive", the remailer will download all messages from the mail spool file and delete them automatically. Note that if you use the "Shared" function, you should always operate the remailer FIRST, and then your e-mail client. This way, the remailer removes the remailer messages, leaving the personal messages (and improperly formatted remailer messages) for your e-mail client to process. You will have to halt the remailer while using your e-mail client. If, for some reason, you manage to download a message meant for the remailer, simply save it to a file (in ASCII format) with a filename of the form INxxxxxx.yyy, where: xxxxxxx is a six-digit number (doesn't matter what number) yyy is a three-digit number (doesn't matter what number) and save it to the INMAIL directory. Make sure there is no other message with that filename so that you won't overwrite an existing message. The remailer will process the message normally on the next batch. You will probably want to kill all rejected messages, as each batch of messages that are processed will download each non-remailer message every time. Set the remailer to KEEP rejected messages until you feel comfortable with the remailer's operation, so you can recover any personal messages in the REJECT directory, if there is a problem with the remailer. 2) Support for message pool size on the Outgoing Mail dialog box. I recommend that the pool size be set to 3 for lightly used remailers (less than 100 messages per day) and 5 to 10 for heavily used remailers. 3) PGP only operation now works properly. 4) Separate secret key ring file for the remailer's key now works properly. The key file must be located in the PGP directory and only the filename should be used in the edit box on the PGP Options dialog box (the path is automatically appended to the filename). 5) The rare problem of the remailer locking up while retrieving messages from the POP server has been fixed. 6) Messages with subject help are now accepted along with remailer-help, to send the remailer help file. Features not yet implemented and known problems: - ----------------------------------------------- 1) Latent-Time is not operational; the header is ignored. 2) Message size limit is not implemented. 3) Help file is not implemented. Use my webpage at: http://www.c2.net/~winsock/setup.html instead. 4) Hard coded IP addresses are not supported. 5) Message reordering for NNTP is not supported yet. 6) The remailer does not work under WinNT or Win95 yet. 7) The remailer does not operate with the Netcom winsock. 8) If the remailer does not have enough memory to run the PGP task in a DOS window, the PGP decryption will fail and the message will be lost. Test a few messages before allowing the remailer to run unattended. 9) Occasionally, the remailer timing out on SMTP or POP3 will cause Free Agent (the newsreader) to disconnect from the news server when using the Internet-In-A-Box WINSOCK. Netscape and Private Idaho also cause this problem, so I am unsure if this is a problem with the remailer or with the WINSOCK. 10) Getting the addresses in the From: and Request-Remailing-To: header lines is weak (requires only that an "@" be present for the address to be assumed valid. Addresses without an "@" sign will be rejected. 11) Loading the WINSOCK.DLL and dialing does not work with Internet-In-A-Box dialer. Trumpet may work, but has not been tested recently. I will retest with Trumpet in a few days. The remailer has not been tested with any other WinSocks. If you find any that work or don't work, please let me know. 12) Debugging messages in DEBUG.ASC file in the LOG subdirectory are cryptic. Generally, timeouts are caused by the server not responding within 60 seconds. 13) Daylight savings time in the Date: header is not yet supported (it will always use standard time). 14) On rare occasions, long messages are sometimes munged. I've been working on this one for weeks, and still don't know why. Installing the WinSock Remailer: - ------------------------------- 1) Create a directory where you want the remailer code to reside, for example, C:\REMAILER. You should have at least 10-20 MB of free disk space on the drive where the remailer will operate. 2) Unzip the file WSA13.ZIP into the directory you just created. You will find three files, WSRMA12.ZIP, this file README.TXT and WSRAM13.SIG. WSRMA13.SIG is the detached signature file for WSRMA13.ZIP. Verify the signature using PGP and my key found on my homepage at http://www.c2.net/~winsock. 3) You will find the following files in WSRMA13.ZIP: Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ---- 219648 Implode 107495 52% 11-17-94 04:50 d2386b5d --w- BC450RTL.DLL 164928 Implode 50249 70% 02-28-95 11:14 060f476f --w- BWCC.DLL 283 Shrunk 220 23% 08-04-96 17:41 eff2eab1 --w- COMMENT.ASC 34 Stored 34 0% 08-04-96 17:44 5400f517 --w- DEST.BLK 1310 Implode 731 45% 09-16-96 23:49 7049ba29 --w- HELP.ASC 232 Shrunk 194 17% 08-04-96 17:43 84f570bc --w- KEY.ASC 4846 Implode 2609 47% 08-13-96 21:37 f8aacb35 --w- LICENSE.TXT 266538 Implode 98828 63% 09-16-96 23:42 80b5a398 --w- REMAILER.EXE 17 Stored 17 0% 08-04-96 17:44 28dedbf6 --w- SOURCE.BLK 545 Implode 179 68% 08-27-95 10:59 d85b6f8e --w- WRPGP.PIF ------ ------ --- ------- 658381 260556 61% 10 4) Move the files BWCC.DLL and BC450RTL.DLL into your Windows system directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM) only if: a) you don't already have these two files, OR b) the dates on the two files in your system directory have dates earlier than those shown above. If you already have the same or later dated files, delete these two files. 5) Move the file WRPGP.PIF into your PGP directory (you should have installed PGP before installing the remailer), usually C:\PGP. Make sure the environment variable PGPPATH points to your PGP directory. 6) Edit the file COMMENT.ASC to customize the headers of messages sent by your remailer. You will want to include information on where to send complaints and blocking requests, and a pointer to your remailer's home page, if any. 7) Edit HELP.ASC for specific help information on how to use your remailer. This file will be sent to users of your remailer if you enable remailer-help on the Options Dialog Box. You should include information on which options you are using with your remailer. 8) Edit KEY.ASC to insert your remailer's PGP public key. 9) Edit SOURCE.BLK (source address blocking file) and DEST.BLK (destination address blocking file) for any addresses you want to block. I recommend you block "whitehouse.gov" to make sure no one uses your remailer to threaten the President, which is a federal crime. Each address must go on a separate line. 10) Create a "Program Item" that you will use to startup the remailer from the Windows Program Manager. Do this by selecting the Group that you want to put the WinSock Remailer into and then selecting File | New from the Program Manager. Make sure that the Working Directory points to the directory where REMAILER.EXE resides. 11) Once you have done all of the above instructions, you can now run the remailer for the first time. Open all of the dialog boxes under the Setup Menu and fill out all of the items. See the WinSock Remailer Setup Page at http://www.c2.net/~winsock/setup.html for more details. 12) Once everything is setup properly, you can now run the remailer. Use Private Idaho to send the remailer some test messages and verify that the operation of the remailer is successful. You will probably want to turn on logging so that you can debug any problems with your remailer setup. If you have any problems or questions, send me a note at jgrasty@gate.net and I will get back to you as soon as I can. You can find additional information on my webpage at http://www.c2.net/~winsock/. See also the release notes at http://www.c2.net/~winsock/relnote.html. Since this is alpha software, you may encounter some problems. Specifically, I need to know if you have success with any of the following untested configurations: a) Windows 95 (now known not to work) b) Windows NT (now known not to work) c) Any WinSock other than Internet-In-A-Box or Trumpet WinSock. d) Any version of PGP other than 2.6.2. If you do find a problem, give me detailed information on your computer's configuration, such as version of Windows, Winsock, amount of memory, which version of PGP, etc. Good luck, Joey Grasty jgrasty@gate.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMkCJNsODO2V89BZZAQGpSgL/bfB+K6kZsguHIWlmOdzkQiU/sJHYYFZN XMwyvt+CXyuQX3nCIwHEkWglFIly+9+FUHfD49McTuBAx0E/EyfuiQbS4XkiSsym 6r/B4kBv3w9Tv54p19LnsApSH4YjGHMX =4XOe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Joey Grasty jgrasty@gate.net [home -- encryption, privacy, RKBA and other hopeless causes] jgrasty@pts.mot.com [work -- designing pagers] "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- John Von Neumann PGP = A7 CC 31 E4 7E A3 36 13 93 F4 C9 06 89 51 F5 A7