-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I've been experimenting with the remailers lately, and I've been trying to put together all the tools I'll need to start sending most of my email through them. Towards this end, I wrote a simple program called CRM that adds forwarding tags, and calls PGP to do multiple encryptions, and then wraps the result in a /bin/sh script that will extract the cyphertext and do the mailing. In what is starting to look to me like a design flaw, I set the program up to pick a random chain of a specified length out of a set of remailers. All of this talk about remailer reliability has got me a little bit spooked, because I don't have any way of knowing if my mail is going through or not. I'd like to configure my remailer's utility so that it only uses a small list of *very* reliable remailers, preferably with each entry on the list being run by a distinct person. Are there any remailers which: o Support PGP encryption? o Have been in reliable operation for a significant period of time (at least a couple of months)? o Are maintained by someone who knows enough about the software to prevent it from crashing? o Don't introduce significant delays in the remailing? (Unless, of course, they are using some sort of scheme to frustrate traffic analysis.) and o Are set up on systems over which the remailer's administrator has enough clout to prevent a summary shutdown without at least giving a couple of days' notice? I'm assuming (for no very good reason) that Hal Finney's sites fit these criterium. If that's true, then strictly speaking, I'd only need one other similar site run by another person, although I'd feel better if I was using a chain through three remailers. Obviously, the more remailers I have on the list, the better off I am. But I'd rather have a small list of highly reliable remailers than a larger list than contains even a single marginal one. The list of remailers that I'm using now came from a list that was posted to this mail-list a few days ago, and I haven't had any problems with it (at least none that I know of -- I'm assuming that all of my mail went through). I just got a little worried about the post reporting dropped mail from the jarthur remailer administrator, which had been mentioned on the list I had been using as a reliable remailer. If anyone can help me out, I'd be grateful. Please post replies to the list, or mail me directly at: astrashe@nyx.cs.du.edu Thanks, Alex -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLIejerGKvmrRrQghAQHvMQQA1Ez5Lxo1glHaJhvquvuti1WseFl4Nw5r g0qRfeWQFwSbZZtsFUiGs6f4iibj9lVpBwtmL8k7oTYRfCNLe+noi6TC0PChEeHt BKQmCAGTx5oPu2UtqXUvfFtb2MwqDXxNpX4BOd+klO6qPjBq6H8eG7GCNzSmeLp5 yr3ALw+qANg= =FSf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----