Welcome to the Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer. The purpose of this mailing list is to explore the frontier of cryptography, civil liberty, economics, and related issues. This is a very high traffic mailing list. Several members of the mailing list are involved in various types of events through the year. Participation by members of the list does not construe any support or affilliation with the mailing list. Contact the author of all works obtained through the remailer network. They retain original rights. There are currently 4 indipendant but cooperating sites supporting full cross posting of traffic. The goal is to provide a mechanism for improved list stability as well as making moderation and other forms of attacks harder to mount. These sites are: ssz.com algebra.com cyberpass.net htp.com (Japan) If you have specific questions about the list or particular remailer host sites please contact postmaster@domain_name for further information. Should you be interested in participating as a CDR host then make an announcement on the list. This will allow all the sites to update their maps. All that is required to become a member is some form of remailer or forwarding mechanism and a means to delete multiple copies of the same message. Currently there are several remailer programs but majordomo is the most popular. In general a procmail script is used to remove duplicates. Please let others know about this mailing list, the more the merrier! To subscribe to the CDR you should contact the individual operators as conditions at each remailer site may be quite different. To subscribe through SSZ you should send a note to list@ssz.com or send an email to majordomo@ssz.com with 'subscribe cypherpunks email_address' in the body. If you have questions or problems contact list@ssz.com There may be local groups of members who have regular (or not) meetings in order to discuss the various issues and projects appropriate to their individual membership. These groups generaly announce their meetings via the CDR. Please feel free to make appropriate announcements of activity in your area. Some popular books that are well respected for learning about Cryptography and the various issues are: Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C Bruce Schneier ISBN 0-471-11709-9 Disappearing Cryptography Peter Wayner ISBN 0-12-738671-8 Internet Cryptography Richard E. Smith ISBN 0-201-92480-3 Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology F.L. Bauer ISBN 3-540-60418-9 Some sites that that might be of interest: Austin Cypherpunks Soda Cypherpunks - Original site