I contacted Eric Hughes, and he suggested that my question was of general enough interest to share with the group. Here is my question followed by Eric's response: ---------- Hi, You pointed me in the direction of hal's remailer at soda.berkeley.edu:pub/cypherpunks and I have the code now. However, since I'm not that familiar with perl, I'm having trouble figuring out exactly how it works. Do you know if anyone has written a technical description of how the remailer works? I would like to build a remailer too, and I wanted to try and understand how Hal's remailer works first. Also, do you know if there is code available for any other remailers in shell script or C? Thanks a lot, Avi Rubin ----------- Chael Hall wrote a remailer in C. He should be willing to share his code. Ask on the list. The question you asked me about understanding the remailer operation is of general enough interest that you ought to just ask the list at large. In specific, I don't know of any such theory of operation. Eric