-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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. USURA is really quick too and has lately been reliable. But it has always suffered from the same problem as Nately, namely that it will truncate all of the remaining lines in a PGP message encrypted with its own public key, this making it impossible to chain effectively. It will read the first command only. It DOES forward all attached files, however (by which I mean text that have been tagged on OUTSIDE of the pgp block encrypted to Usura). EXTROPIA and VOX suffer from the exact *opposite* problem. They forward the entire inner remains of a pgp block untouched after having only read the first commands to them. But they both ignore and discard all text outside that first initial pgp block encrypted with their public keys. This means that you cannot send a message with multiple pgp's through either of them: because any attached parts get thrown away. As a practical application, it means that you can't use either of these two as part of your nym@alpha.c2.org setup, sadly... BTW, with VOX you will have to add the ::Encrypted: PGP bit whereas you don't have to do that with Extropia (or with alias@alpha.c2.org for that matter). REBMA is ideal in that it does not touch your message: You can use *both* attached files and "wheels within wheels" where you have layers of pgp'ed remailer instructions hidden inside one another. The main problem with REBMA is that she has been down a bit lately and even when she is not down, you have to wait ages: 1 or 2 days, sometimes even more. The best remailer, IMO, is HAL@ALUMNI.CALTECH.EDU which operates in tandem with HFINNEY@SHELL.PORTAL.COM: Both are fast and very reliable. Moreover, neither will throw away attached messages (like Vox and Extropia do) nor throw away the other loops of an inner-encrypted pgp reply block (like Usura and now, lately, unfortunately, also Nately do). Very versatile! I used to like JPUNIX too. Now it seems HOMER@RAHUL.NET is a winner, I don't know if he will stay reliable, but he sure is fast. In terms of PGP, he is just as good as HAL/HFINNEY. Likewise, TOWER: Both work! The DESERT remailer is sometimes fast, sometimes slow. I have a feel it waits until it can send out stuff in batches. So sometimes you have to wait a day or so. It works with Anon-To: last I checked, if I recall correctly. That's the extent of my playing around. I would appreciate corrections and help, especially information with some of the remailers I have not mentioned here. I have not played with Q or with FLAME, for instance. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| .Signature field left blank (or it wouldn't be anonymous, would it?) |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLzUR0CoZzwIn1bdtAQGoHQF/ep/uxpNHaCX4JUoETqULLax8Q0vu6VrY Jh1P/ey2QrWi1TKWky3/SJ967S+xoqg0 =gEZ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----