---------- From: William Knowles[SMTP:erehwon@c2.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 1996 5:54 PM To: dc-stuff Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: nym.alias.net enters beta testing (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:40:36 -0400 (EDT) From: lcs Remailer Administrator <mix-admin@nym.alias.net> To: cypherpunks@toad.com, coderpunks@toad.com, remailer-operators@c2.org, mail2news@anon.lcs.mit.edu Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: nym.alias.net enters beta testing Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I'm pleased to announce that the nym.alias.net pseudonym server has now entered the beta-testing phase, and seems quite stable. Nym.alias.net offers several interesting features: * Public-Key encryption of all received mail. Once mail has gone through nym.alias.net, no one can read it except you--even if you have been sending your mail to a newsgroup and your reply-block and remailers become compromised. * Support for multiple, probabilistically-weighted, reply blocks. These can be used for redundancy or to foil traffic analysis with decoys. * Replay detection. This foils replay attacks, but can also be used for higher reliability if you send redundant copies of a message through different remailer chains. * An option to receive only fixed-length messages (by splitting up large messages and padding small ones with garbage). * An option to sign mail you send with the remailer's public key, so as to give some assurance of authenticity without having to publish your own PGP public key. * Support for finger [pending DNS approval]. You can choose to make your nym's PGP public key available to all who finger its E-mail address. Right now you can test this by fingering at 18.26.0.252. In addition, experimental nym.alias.net support for Premail is now available (in the form of a patch to premail 0.44). With this patch, premail will store your nym's PGP key on encrypted keyrings. This allows you to publish a PGP key for your pseudonym without the danger of your identity being revealed to someone with access to your main PGP keyrings (or a backup copy of them). To obtain more information about nym.alias.net, finger <nymhelp@anon.lcs.mit.edu> or send mail to <help@nym.alias.net>. To get information about using premail with nym.alias.net, finger <premail-info@anon.lcs.mit.edu> or send mail to <premail-info@nym.alias.net>. These documents are also available on the new nym.alias.net web page: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/n.a.n.html Please report all bugs to <admin@nym.alias.net>. I'll also be glad to consider feature requests, particularly from anyone interested in developing any more client software. Enjoy! mix-admin@anon.lcs.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMf6dcUTBtHVi58fRAQE4NgP/SoKSqHxobEHuyWl6lXVAHgk9yqNS/WAD jUfKYGodThr93kJZkmreyIHrWgbromJJlXo6MPq9KpZzIh85uHRzBPRSh293hfUo ta8/sdZsW1+uoEkAs8JUWlwAEGo+bfmgRnFswf80pAPClpbGo52DAKyLKfdCaFps kQ+4hoouUvo= =qEWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----