Ryan and the other HavenCo folks deserve *massive* kudos for this. (now, when is the HavenCo remailer going online? :-)

The remailer has been up since 16 September 2001, and was announced to this list among others. http://remailer.havenco.com/ Next thing coming is "mail.havenco.com" with: * [SSL] IMAP/POP3/HTTP/SMTP with domain hosting for customers (point your domain MX at us, we'll resell mail accounts using your domain name and give you a percentage) * PGP Keyserver (this is not my favorite software..) * PGP auto-keysigner which does "proof of control of email address" ID signing; KDC for HAVENCO.COM, maybe x509 stuff. Would be good for gale keys as well. * Local mail archives (SSL, same URL as mail.havenco.com to provide cover traffic), googleified. * Ideally some linkage to instant messaging as well -- SMS to email or email to SMS gatewaying, various IMs, whatever. I have this for myself, but it's hard to figure out how to scale. * Mailing list creation and management * Some decent linking to remailer network; store/forward messaging over remailers, links to reply-block style remailers. Ease of use is more important for most people, so an anonymously-purchased imap mailbox is probably good enough in most cases. Probably start just by keeping remailer.havenco.com and mail.havenco.com on the same subnet with postfix-tls between the two. * *maybe* links to some kind of weblog/blog system (I'd actually like to write an RFC on how to share "friends" functionality" between these systems; it's a semi-complex database issue to do efficiently.) although this is pretty far from mail. * also, continue adding mirrors of various software Independently of havenco (well, using a purchased box): * Someone is setting up a file-storage thing with web interface on Sealand; might be designed to avoid public-content-hosting, just private, not sure. Followed by: (I have them for myself now, not commercial-grade yet) * Anonymizing proxy on Sealand, cover general traffic as well as havenco-destination traffic. Free and no ads to havenco-destination sites; free and ads and rate-limiting to elsewhere, or subscription. * VPN services to Sealand (PPP over SSH, some other tools) Followed by: (unlikely to even break-even) * Sourceforge-type offshore software development system (basic, will roll out features over time). Will charge for resources, but then people can sponsor individual projects, and I'll sponsor ones which are either technically or socially interesting. cvs, a build and test farm, www and ftp, links to the mail system, trouble ticketing, maybe some links to make it easy to develop and deploy code from the same interface (if it's a simple "web service" or something like that) The main projects which would benefit are "underground" things like dvd players with decss built in (Ogle), or various p2p projects, or general circumvention technology, or maybe crypto. Sourceforge does what it does quite well, so for general-purpose code, it's probably the best place to host. I hope to have something as good as sourceforge by summer 2002. The mail stuff is mostly done and just in testing, and working out support/payment issues, so it should be ready in December. -- Ryan Lackey ryan@havenco.com CTO and Co-founder, HavenCo Ltd. the free world just milliseconds away http://www.havenco.com/ OpenPGP 4096: B8B8 3D95 F940 9760 C64B DE90 07AD BE07 D2E0 301F