From: IN%"hendersn@zeta.org.au" 23-MAY-1996 11:35:09.98

I really like this idea. How about instead of a full-scale remailer being the final jump of the message, you have a _very_ simple remailer set up along the lines of anon.penet.fi. No encryption, just strip off the headers and send the message to its final destination. Sorry for being clueless in how this works(I'm learning as fast as I can), but wouldn't this kind of system be incredibly easy to start up and fold? You could have a host of such final emanation points winking in and out of existence while the actual encrypting remailers remain relatively safe.

Well, an anon.penet.fi one has the disadvantage of not encrypting between the final sendings.... which means that it's relatively easy to trace back a given message to whatever remailer sent it, via traffic monitoring. A forwarding remailer that decrypted mail according to a published key would get around this, especially if it were being run out of a POP or other email forwarding account (otherwise, the operator of the system could just look and see what the private key was, and thus be able to trace back). -Allen