10-8-96. VV: "The Remailer Is Dead, Long Live the Remailer. Life After Penet." By Dave Mandl (Excellent, Dave, yes!) By the strict standards of the cypherpunks, a loosely knit affinity group of the Net's most radical and technoliterate privacy advocates, Penet's security was actually on the flimsy side. Its Achilles' heel was the file -- just begging to be subpoenaed -- that linked users' real names to their Penet pseudonyms. Cypherpunk-run remailers, on the other hand, generally leave no trace of the sender's true identity. In addition, cypherpunk remailers can be "chained" -- messages can be routed through several far-flung remailers before reaching their final destination, making message tracing all but impossible, even for the remailer operators. ----- http://jya.com/remail.txt ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/remail.txt REM_ail