Urban Nilsson spake:

I've just taken a quick look at soda.berkeley.edu's remailers. There's several of them, and if I'm now to install one of them, what are their strengths/weaknesses? Should I choose hal's remailer? Or maybe Nate's? Or hh-remailer? Sameer's anon- remailer? The INDEX file doesn't say anything about what differs one remailer from the next, just who wrote it... Help me out, please!

=) I thought I wrote up the INDEX with more verbosity than you imply was there. Let's see.

hal's.instructions.gz Instructions on how to use Hal's style of remailer Instructions that everyone should read because it outlines the basics of encrypted remailer blocks & chaining pretty well with good examples.

hal's.remailer.gz The code to run Hal's remailer Hal's code, rather obsolete and hard to install. Other people have improved upon it, which are listed below.

hh-remailer-0.9.tar.gz The code for the hh@soda remailer (hmm, a little out of date.) hh-remailer-X.tar.gz -- the current version of the remailer@soda software, not quite in stable, ready-to-release form, but it's available if people want to take a crack at running the code running on remailer@soda.

nates-remailer.tar.gz The code for Nate Sammons nates@netcom.com remailer I don't know too much more about this one. I think its in C.

hh-soda-remailer-instructions How to use the hh@soda.berkeley.edu remailer blind-server.docs Instructions on using Sameer's blind anon-server How to use the anon-server I wrote which uses encrypted remailing blocks. The anon-server isn't quite "open for business" yet. Wait until June. Hopefully by then I'll have a good client written as well.

morpheus-remailer-hack.zip Additions to a remailer to help with verification that it is up & running I don't know much about this but it is probably obsolete with the addition of Ray's pinger.pl code into remailer@soda.

pubkeys.tar.gz The public keys of a few remailers pubkeys.zip The public keys of a few remailers I think these are out of date.

scripts.tar.gz Some UNIX scripts to help with remailer chaining anonmail.arj A C++ program to help with chaining chain.zip A DOS program to help with chaining dosbat.zip Some DOS .BAT files to help with chaining Various tools

remailer-install.tar.gz A system to make installation of a r An easy to install version of Hal's remailer above with a few minor modifications. Soon this and hh-remailer will be integrated and the hh-remailer code will be all spiffy and releaseable and easy to install.

Hope that answers your questions. -Sameer