List of reliable remailers

[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 at 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

   For the PGP public keys of the remailers, as well as some help on
how to use them, finger remailer.help.all at 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 10-day history, and average latency and uptime for each
   remailer. You can also get this list by fingering
   remailer-list at kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu.

$remailer{"chaos"} = "<remailer at chaos.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub";
$remailer{"vox"} = "<remail at vox.xs4all.nl> cpunk oldpgp. post";
$remailer{"avox"} = "<anon at vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk oldpgp post";
$remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail at extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special";
$remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney at shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash";
$remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal at alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash";
$remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub";
$remailer{"rebma"} = "<remailer at rebma.mn.org> cpunk pgp hash";
$remailer{"jpunix"} = "<remailer at jpunix.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post";
$remailer{"wien"} = "<remailer at ds1.wu-wien.ac.at> cpunk pgp hash nsub";
$remailer{"c2"} = "<remail at c2.org> eric pgp hash";
$remailer{"soda"} = "<remailer at csua.berkeley.edu> eric pgp. post";
$remailer{"penet"} = "<anon at anon.penet.fi> penet post";
$remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer at ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub";
$remailer{"usura"} = "<usura at xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. hash latent cut post";
$remailer{"leri"} = "<remail at leri.edu> cpunk pgp hash";
$remailer{"desert"} = "<remail at desert.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp.";
$remailer{"underdog"} = "<lmccarth at ducie.cs.umass.edu> cpunk hash latent cut post";
catalyst at netcom.com is _not_ a remailer.

Last ping: Mon 19 Sep 94 6:00:01 PDT
remailer  email address                        history  latency  uptime
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
wien     remailer at ds1.wu-wien.ac.at       ***-+**++***     9:04  99.99%
bsu-cs   nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu           ***++*****+*     6:05  99.99%
c2       remail at c2.org                    +****-**+*-*  1:02:35  99.99%
ideath   remailer at ideath.goldenbear.com   +****++*-.+*  2:32:19  99.99%
chaos    remailer at chaos.bsu.edu           *******#**#*     1:48  99.99%
leri     remail at leri.edu                  *****-**+*-*    56:05  99.99%
alumni   hal at alumni.caltech.edu           -***********    13:07  99.91%
soda     remailer at csua.berkeley.edu       +++++++...    5:41:04  99.97%
portal   hfinney at shell.portal.com         -***********    13:01  99.87%
extropia remail at extropia.wimsey.com       ++-- -++++++  1:22:57  99.73%
underdog lmccarth at ducie.cs.umass.edu             *****     3:43  99.59%
vox      remail at vox.xs4all.nl             ---.. --.-   11:04:20  99.50%
rebma    remailer at rebma.mn.org            --*-----+-    6:19:39  99.77%
penet    anon at anon.penet.fi               ************  2:02:48  98.91%
jpunix   remailer at jpunix.com              *** *-** #**     7:34  98.87%
desert   remail at desert.xs4all.nl          ..--.- ----  25:55:50  81.03%
usura    usura at xs4all.nl                  *****   **+*     8:54  79.30%

Suggested path: c2;bsu-cs;wien
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