I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail@miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster@remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer@replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer@remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack@holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer@dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer@cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock@rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config@nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer@huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix@squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman@jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias@alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config@weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman@cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"wazoo"} = "<remailer@wazoo.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"shaman"} = "<remailer@lycaeum.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"hidden"} = "<remailer@hidden.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; catalyst@netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura@replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer@crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix) (weasel squirrel) The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you can use the nym or weasel (newnym style) nymservers. The cyber nymserver is quite reliable for outgoing mail (which is what's measured here), but is exhibiting serious reliability problems for incoming mail. The squirrel and winsock remailers accept PGP encrypted mail only. 403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the Berkeley WWW server. This seems to be fixed now. The penet remailer is closed. Last update: Mon 7 Jul 97 6:47:50 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- jam remailer@cypherpunks.ca +**+*****++* 12:58 99.95% weasel config@weasel.owl.de +++-+---+++ 1:43:42 99.91% mix mixmaster@remail.obscura.com .-*...-..-.- 10:13:59 99.80% replay remailer@replay.com +**+**- **** 4:56 99.79% winsock winsock@rigel.cyberpass.net - -.------- 5:53:17 99.58% squirrel mix@squirrel.owl.de +++-+ -+++ 1:42:06 99.46% cyber alias@alias.cyberpass.net **+* +++*** 13:35 99.43% nym config@nym.alias.net +##+##++#*## 2:48 99.36% reno middleman@cyberpass.net --+.--* -*** 1:39:45 99.31% hidden remailer@hidden.net 4:44:03 -0.56% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien