I operate a remailer pinging service 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 This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail, which is available at: ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/premail/premail-0.30.tar.gz For the PGP public keys of the remailers, as well as some help on how to use them, finger remailer.help.all@chaos.bsu.edu 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 12-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{"vox"} = "<remail@vox.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. post"; $remailer{"avox"} = "<anon@vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk pgp post"; $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail@extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special"; $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 latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail@c2.org> eric pgp hash"; $remailer{"soda"} = "<remailer@csua.berkeley.edu> eric post"; $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon@anon.penet.fi> penet post"; $remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"usura"} = "<usura@replay.com> cpunk pgp. hash latent cut post"; $remailer{"desert"} = "<remail@desert.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. post"; $remailer{"nately"} = "<remailer@nately.ucsd.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"xs4all"} = "<remailer@xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"flame"} = "<tomaz@flame.sinet.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"rahul"} = "<homer@rahul.net> cpunk"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster@nately.ucsd.edu> cpunk hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"q"} = "<q@c2.org> cpunk hash latent cut ek"; catalyst@netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. Last ping: Mon 26 Dec 94 6:00:25 PST remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- alumni hal@alumni.caltech.edu +*********** 3:37 99.99% usura usura@replay.com +*********** 4:41 99.99% nately remailer@nately.ucsd.edu ++++++++++++ 45:12 99.99% portal hfinney@shell.portal.com *******#*#*# 1:52 99.99% penet anon@anon.penet.fi +*********** 22:14 99.99% mix mixmaster@nately.ucsd.edu ++++++-+++++ 55:05 99.99% ideath remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com +******++* + 1:33:50 99.99% vox remail@vox.xs4all.nl --...-..-..- 15:24:27 99.99% rahul homer@rahul.net ****-----*** 38:39 99.90% soda remailer@csua.berkeley.edu ........-. 9:26:00 99.88% desert remail@desert.xs4all.nl --.-...---- 14:54:03 99.99% q q@c2.org +--++- -- 7:56:13 99.51% c2 remail@c2.org ++-++ -- 6:16:43 98.96% xs4all remailer@xs4all.nl +**** * **** 4:56 98.85% flame tomaz@flame.sinet.org **+* +*** * 6:03 97.30% rebma remailer@rebma.mn.org ..-.------*+ 10:22:19 97.32% jpunix remailer@jpunix.com **+* +*** * 5:38 97.26% bsu-cs nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu *******+* - 8:30:01 93.77% extropia remail@extropia.wimsey.com _ .+.-+* 32:24:15 81.95% For more info: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html 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). 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. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. ek Encrypt responses in relpy blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. Comments and suggestions welcome! Raph Levien