-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Chael Hall)

Fellow Cypherpunks:

I am working on a program in C that will provide both anonymous remailing capabilities and mail server operations.

It's good to see more people working on remailers. The cypherpunks remailers have been written in Perl, which facilitates experimenting and testing of new interfaces. The idea might be to migrate them to C eventually for efficiency, but during this experimental phase we may want to try out new ideas, and it's easier to modify a Perl script than a C program.

If you cannot add your own header lines with your mailer, set the subject to contain "Request Remailing" and use the following format:

:: Request-Remailing-To: user@host Subject: Anything you choose ::

Any of the following fields can be placed within the "::" delimiters:

Request-Remailing-To: X-Anon-To: Subject:

The remailer is case insensitive and you can place the "::" lines anywhere within the message.

This is somewhat similar to the cypherpunks remailers; however, they accept the :: only at the beginning of the message, allow any fields to be put there that the user desires (not just those three), and terminate the block by a blank line. Does your alternate system have some advantages?

I forgot to add: If you are chaining remailers, you can use the sequence "+::+" at the beginning of the line to pass the remaining characters on that line through the remailer untouched.

I do find the use of this string to produce rather complicated looking commands. The cypherpunks remailers get the same effect by just putting in blocks starting with :: and separated by blank lines: :: Anon-To: anon@anon.penet.fi :: Anon-To: nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu This looks simpler to me. Hal Finney 74076.1041@compuserve.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.1 iQCVAgUBK05WUagTA69YIUw3AQGpaAP+LxpocNUI1/Zw3DAwwAxeKBtdj0sSyx8p 05xnI3FmklosxapVpcF/aVkDKL/FjzwBZ9ML5wt2m7UvqS1iX9UILQByPNAxTOKF TIuFKkjt2wT5ykvHRGLl6ZAB6w6PzkNiclHNJw4FFEaFzoxmnz3bQXatKBFFgGFd IjIMFF0d0Ig= =ztz0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Distribution: CYPHERPUNKS >INTERNET:CYPHERPUNKS@TOAD.COM