Alan (alano@teleport.com) wrote:

Currently, use of the Mixmaster remailer system is out of reach of most of the average users out there. The only serious project to address that need has been Private Idaho and development has stopped on that project.

Privtool (my PGP-aware mail program for Unix) has supported Mixmaster remailing for years (just click a box and off it goes) and would also support nym.alias.net if it hadn't gone down just as I started building in the capability (it currently supports decryption but not posting). Anyone who wants to use my remailing code is free to rip it off under the GPL. Currently there are at least two people developing Private Idaho and possibly more. However, even command-line Mixmaster remailing is much simpler than using the Type-I remailers.

Currently the nymserver network is in pretty bad shape as well. They are difficult to use and are dependant on the whims of the remailer network.

I've been playing with Premail and found it pretty easy to use. As I said above, reliability is the main problem; particularly when you lose the entire domain now and again. Mark