List of reliable remailers
I have written and installed a remailer pinging script which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html Please let me know about any other remailers which I missed. I've only included remailers which can mail to arbitrary addresses, so I already know chop and twwells are missing. This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail, which is available at: ftp://kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/raph/premail-0.22.tar.gz This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 10-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"chaos"} = "<remailer@chaos.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"vox"} = "<remail@vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk oldpgp."; $remailer{"avox"} = "<anon@vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk oldpgp"; $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail@extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"kaiwan"} = "<ghio@kaiwan.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney@shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal@alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"rebma"} = "<remailer@rebma.mn.org> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"jpunix"} = "<remailer@jpunix.com> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"wien"} = "<remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at> cpunk pgp hash nsub"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail@c2.org> eric pgp hash"; $remailer{"soda"} = "<remailer@csua.berkeley.edu> eric pgp."; $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon@anon.penet.fi> penet"; $remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"usura"} = "<usura@xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. hash latent cut"; $remailer{"leri"} = "<remail@leri.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; Last ping: Tue 6 Sep 94 11:00:01 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- jpunix remailer@jpunix.com **+**-**++## 7:36 99.99% bsu-cs nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu **++******## 4:47 99.99% wien remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at *-**+*-*+*** 12:38 99.99% extropia remail@extropia.wimsey.com --+++---..-+ 5:20:51 99.99% c2 remail@c2.org .-++++-+***+ 42:07 99.99% vox remail@vox.hacktic.nl --------- . 10:30:39 99.99% chaos remailer@chaos.bsu.edu *#****###### 0:57 99.92% ideath remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com **-*****+*#+ 12:50 99.87% leri remail@leri.edu --+*****+*#+ 22:09 99.83% soda remailer@csua.berkeley.edu +++++++++..+ 2:45:46 99.58% kaiwan ghio@kaiwan.com +** + ++--** 19:32 99.28% alumni hal@alumni.caltech.edu **+****+ * * 5:03 99.15% portal hfinney@shell.portal.com **+****+ #* 3:36 98.22% rebma remailer@rebma.mn.org -----*+--- + 5:32:23 94.53% usura usura@xs4all.nl ****+*+* -* 22:49 87.85% penet anon@anon.penet.fi _ _+__++** 43:44:31 73.46% Suggested path: wien;bsu-cs;jpunix For more info: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html Options and features cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. oldpgp Remailer does not like messages encoded with MIT PGP 2.6. Other versions of PGP, including 2.3a and 2.6ui, work fine. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). If you've got a Web page, please feel free to include a link to this page. If you think your Web page is relevant to the subject of remailers, let me know and I'll link it in. Comments and suggestions welcome! Note to remailer operators: this script generates hourly ping messages. If you don't want that, let me know and I will take your mailer off the list, or increase the interval between pings. Raph Levien
I have written and installed a remailer pinging script which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability.
To use it, just finger remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu
There is also a Web version of the same information, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
Just to give some kudos to Raph, I've used his "finger" service and have been shocked at how _good_ it is! Seeing the uptimes, delays, etc. is very useful in planning remailer chains. I haven't had the time to explore his other tools, though. Between this pinging service, and those of Matt Ghio and Sameer Parekh (haven't checked it in a while), welcome progress has been made. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."
Just to give some kudos to Raph, I've used his "finger" service and have been shocked at how _good_ it is! Seeing the uptimes, delays, etc. is very useful in planning remailer chains.
I haven't had the time to explore his other tools, though.
'premail' is excellent. I just this weekend hacked elm and pine to worrrk with premail, which I posted to the list. (these versions of elm and pine are installed on c2.org -- premail is not yet publically installed.)
Between this pinging service, and those of Matt Ghio and Sameer Parekh (haven't checked it in a while), welcome progress has been made.
My pinger (on remail@c2.org and remailer@csua.berkeley.edu) has not been very reliable. I wanted a remailer pinger service available for my blind server and client projects and having seen Raph's setup I am deferring to his. . I hope to be able to incorporate the excellent setup that Raph is running into a client for the blind server running on omega.c2.org. Regarding Tim's earlier comments about for-pay remailers and such. I regard remail@c2.org a for-pay/prfossionally run remailer. While there is no charge associated with using the remailer, it is running as one of the many services offered by the for-profit Community ConneXion system. Thus I hope to keep this remailer very reliable, very strong, and Raph's setup will hopefully show this. (The blind server is an actual for-pay service but I expect that most users will not use it to a degree more than they get for free when they set up an account -- I should make sure I reword my description to emphasize that. [I suspect the reason thhat not many people have signed up [the client *is* hard to use, yes, and slightly buggy, but it works.. that is a reason, but not the main one, in my eyes is that people see that it is a forpay service and don't realize that light usage is free]) -- sameer Voice: 510-841-2014 Network Administrator Pager: 510-321-1014 Community ConneXion: The NEXUS-Berkeley Dialin: 510-549-1383 http://www.c2.org (or login as "guest") sameer@c2.org
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