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-0.20.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 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@hacktic.nl> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"leri"} = "<remail@leri.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; Last ping: Mon 29 Aug 94 6:00:01 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- kaiwan ghio@kaiwan.com ####*+**+*** 4:21 99.99% portal hfinney@shell.portal.com #####*#***+* 4:54 99.99% jpunix remailer@jpunix.com ####******+* 6:35 99.99% wien remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at ####*****-** 10:32 99.99% alumni hal@alumni.caltech.edu ####******+* 7:30 99.99% usura usura@hacktic.nl ##*#-******* 13:35 99.99% bsu-cs nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu ##-#**##**++ 18:22 99.99% extropia remail@extropia.wimsey.com ****++++--++ 1:13:54 99.99% vox remail@vox.hacktic.nl ----------- 7:04:23 99.99% c2 remail@c2.org ***++-+-.-++ 2:33:05 99.97% chaos remailer@chaos.bsu.edu ### *###*#** 0:58 99.56% ideath remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com ###+*+****-* 40:42 99.27% leri remail@leri.edu ###*++*--+* 1:41:41 99.03% soda remailer@csua.berkeley.edu +*-+++++++++ 1:30:41 97.61% rebma remailer@rebma.mn.org ----+ 5:46:02 64.79% penet anon@anon.penet.fi __ ._. 45:04:39 26.55% Suggested path: jpunix;portal;kaiwan 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