At 07:24 PM 2/29/96 +0100, you wrote:

...

...

The mixmaster remailers require special client software on your machine.

What special software? What will the client do?

It's "The Mixmaster Client Software". Mixmaster is a relatively complex system that breaks up the message into encrypted pieces that get sent separately to a destination mixmaster, which decrypts and reassembles the pieces and sends the message on to the final destination. It's more secure, partly because all the transmissions are encyrpted, and partly because it's much harder to do traffic analysis on a network of indentical-sized chunks floating around than on messages with distinct sizes that you can watch.

I think the client only runs on Unix, or at least doesn't run on DOS, though there's some porting work being done, and you can probably find it on one of the Netherlands remailer sites.

Ok.. that explains it! But If I really need to be that sure of not being tracked down I could use the Mixmaster on my unix shell account!