I have tested remailers and their PGP keys over some time now and this is what I have found:

MIXMASTER is a great, fast and reliable remailer but you can't PGP with it.

REMAILER@NATELY.UCSD.EDU is just as fast and reliable (same guy) and you can use PGP, but a few weeks ago it started acting really funny: It will forward any ATTACHED files, but it will only read the first commandline of a PGP block that has been pgp'ed with Nately's public key. In other words, if you wrap layers of chained remailers inside each other, you will now have to have NATELY as the *last* link in your chain as it will otherwise discard the rest of the block. Alternatively you can have the chain as a series of attached files.

I am not sure what is going on with remailer@nately. I just tested it, sending a PGP encrypted message chained through it 3 times, I also sent a message chained through nately to c2. They both worked fine. Are you using a program to build the chain, like "Chain"? If so, which? Mixmaster now has a PGP key (it has had one for a long time for testing purposes, this is a new one). The front end for using mixmaster remailer type 2 messages is on my WWW page. Right now it only runs on Suns. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAy8y6PAAAAEEAJF05HUUQM4n9G5wHOZ+bHZbF6yFmeX5wBGElssHqUnbb4PQ S/f8jWvJyfiZkjlOkzOEJ47fZ++x+yYWgzKGUKp2ejIKu2MvnzgLfIkwKfxioPXq xgBpLcFaDrbM52Mi4MEpEYW4DJqxk9TrAnHZBwXmxpOZQ57UcgbmF1BLzawNAAUR tC5NaXhtYXN0ZXIgUmVtYWlsZXIgPG1peG1hc3RlckBuYXRlbHkudWNzZC5lZHU+ iQCVAwUQLzLpflVkk3dax7hlAQH2GQP9FGBU7uGako4YghrUNzyb3tcdwZwsGkBx Gy9MGojOSwWgXQ0CRLD9+IWgkZnRY902pU65C3IZhFB7erXBk5eyGOXhbahHv07o mhHRiE2v4Z9hNapWVHHeDo0F2AoL7B8kkiFjXI2fVYzofB6gmXd7X8Wzh/9AEQsz 63U8X9cbajyJAJUDBRAvMulXBuYXUEvNrA0BAQOkA/9QfgNGLp6MX1Qwk55uLiHG ajeT+Rtgruaj9DPOoZFVj9w0pImBkCQNw5eA6iZTgiAqkbSG7RaR9yKMU27Gf/O+ yz3cWAx4slFmCpVDlEl5qSa1Bd+2LuneN4EvnxfeI7TLUIFKlPcIOnx9zsu5Ny0I SCtHVHBaGw43OT1OYmLjgA== =Zr4D -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -------------------------------------------------- Lance Cottrell who does not speak for CASS/UCSD loki@nately.ucsd.edu PGP 2.6 key available by finger or server. Encrypted mail welcome. Home page http://nately.ucsd.edu/~loki/ Check out my essay on the next generation remailer Mixmaster on the WWW page. For anon remailer info, mail remailer@nately.ucsd.edu Subject: remailer-help "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come." --Nietzsche