List of reliable remailers
I have written and installed a remailer pinging script 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, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html Please let me know about any other remailers which I missed. I've only included remailers which can mail to arbitrary addresses, so I already know chop and twwells are missing. This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail, which is available at: fftp://soda.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/premail/premail-0.22.tar.gz For the PGP public keys of the remailers, as well as some help on how to use them, finger remailer.help.all@chaos.bsu.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{"chaos"} = "<remailer@chaos.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"vox"} = "<remail@vox.xs4all.nl> cpunk oldpgp. post"; $remailer{"avox"} = "<anon@vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk oldpgp post"; $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail@extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney@shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal@alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"rebma"} = "<remailer@rebma.mn.org> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"jpunix"} = "<remailer@jpunix.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post"; $remailer{"wien"} = "<remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at> cpunk pgp hash nsub"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail@c2.org> eric pgp hash"; $remailer{"soda"} = "<remailer@csua.berkeley.edu> eric pgp. post"; $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon@anon.penet.fi> penet post"; $remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"usura"} = "<usura@xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. hash latent cut post"; $remailer{"leri"} = "<remail@leri.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"desert"} = "<remail@desert.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. post"; $remailer{"underdog"} = "<lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post"; $remailer{"nately"} = "<remailer@nately.ucsd.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"efrias"} = "<efrias@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; catalyst@netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. Last ping: Mon 3 Oct 94 6:00:02 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- c2 remail@c2.org *+-********* 13:09 99.99% wien remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at ***#+**--#** 19:02 99.99% chaos remailer@chaos.bsu.edu **####**+##* 2:56 99.99% leri remail@leri.edu ***#**#***** 6:38 99.99% portal hfinney@shell.portal.com *##*#+***#** 4:01 99.99% ideath remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com *****-*+- ** 1:40:23 99.99% underdog lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu ***+******** 4:41 99.98% penet anon@anon.penet.fi *****+-+**** 47:05 99.96% jpunix remailer@jpunix.com *-*#**-**-** 11:04 99.96% vox remail@vox.xs4all.nl .-......-- 12:10:26 99.94% bsu-cs nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu **# #****#-* 13:42 99.76% efrias efrias@csugrad.cs.vt.edu *#***** 4:30 99.79% rebma remailer@rebma.mn.org -+---*--.-*- 10:13:40 99.58% extropia remail@extropia.wimsey.com ++ +-++++*+ 40:30 99.40% soda remailer@csua.berkeley.edu -......_.. 9:25:30 99.31% nately remailer@nately.ucsd.edu -++++- ++++* 33:37 99.15% usura usura@xs4all.nl +***..-** ** 1:16:06 98.42% desert remail@desert.xs4all.nl .---...---- 24:19:31 84.16% alumni hal@alumni.caltech.edu *****+** 6:06 79.87% Suggested path: chaos;wien;c2 For more info: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html Options and features 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. oldpgp Remailer does not like messages encoded with MIT PGP 2.6. Other versions of PGP, including 2.3a and 2.6ui, work fine. 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. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. 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). If you've got a Web page, please feel free to include a link to this page. If you think your Web page is relevant to the subject of remailers, let me know and I'll link it in. Comments and suggestions welcome! Note to remailer operators: this script generates hourly ping messages. If you don't want that, let me know and I will take your mailer off the list, or increase the interval between pings. Raph Levien
On Mon, 3 Oct 1994, Raph Levien wrote:
I have written and installed a remailer pinging script which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability.
To use it, just finger remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu
Thanks Raph. This is very helpful for those of us who are code handicapped. This is very helpful as a general guide. Unfortunately, I've found that the information that it provides does not help me with remailer reliability. I've seen a remailer that supposedly has a latency of 8 or 9 hours, actually delay 24. This makes your script fairly ineffectual. You can't do diddly with bad data ... -- Istvan.
On Mon, 3 Oct 1994, Istvan von Keszi wrote:
Thanks Raph. This is very helpful for those of us who are code handicapped. This is very helpful as a general guide.
Unfortunately, I've found that the information that it provides does not help me with remailer reliability. I've seen a remailer that supposedly has a latency of 8 or 9 hours, actually delay 24.
This makes your script fairly ineffectual.
You can't do diddly with bad data ...
Istvan.
You are perhaps more than just code handicapped. It seems you also fail to perceive the implicit YMMV clause that comes with using a service *provided gratis* by someone else. Ask Raph real nicely, and maybe he'll send you the code for the remail-pinging script so you can run it from your particular corner of the Net, it wouldn't be unprecedented, after all, Raph has freely distributed his hack of premail. But then again it wouldn't be unprecedented for him to tell you go stuff yourself. Genuine bug reports on an author's work are best discussed first in private E-mail, and brought to the attention of the list if it is more than a trivial gripe. BTW, I don't recall seeing the FedEx remailer that promises delivery by 10:00 am the next business morning, or in fact any remailer that promises delivery at all. Caveat poster. It is an ill-mannered guest who complains that the wonderous toys provided for him to play with sometimes fail to satisfy his every whim. C. J. Leonard ( / "DNA is groovy" \ / - Watson & Crick <cjl@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> / \ <-- major groove ( \ Finger for public key \ ) Strong-arm for secret key / <-- minor groove Thumb-screws for pass-phrase / )
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