List of reliable remailers

Mon Aug 21 06:51:22 PDT 1995

   I operate a remailer pinging service 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, plus lots of
interesting links to remailer-related resources, 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-0.33.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.taylored.com

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 at kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu.

$remailer{"vox"} = "<remail at vox.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. post";
$remailer{"avox"} = "<anon at vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk pgp 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{"c2"} = "<remail at c2.org> eric pgp hash reord";
$remailer{"penet"} = "<anon at anon.penet.fi> penet post";
$remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer at ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub reord";
$remailer{"hacktic"} = "<remailer at utopia.hacktic.nl> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek";
$remailer{"flame"} = "<remailer at flame.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut post ek reord";
$remailer{"rahul"} = "<homer at rahul.net> cpunk pgp hash filter";
$remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster at remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord";
$remailer{"syrinx"} = "<syrinx at c2.org> cpunk pgp reord mix post";
$remailer{"ford"} = "<remailer at bi-node.zerberus.de> cpunk pgp";
$remailer{"hroller"} = "<hroller at c2.org> cpunk pgp hash mix cut ek";
$remailer{"vishnu"} = "<mixmaster at vishnu.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord";
$remailer{"crown"} = "<mixmaster at kether.alias.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut mix ek reord";
$remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer at replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek";
$remailer{"spook"} = "<remailer at spook.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"gondolin"} = "<mixmaster at gondolin.org> cpunk mix hash latent cut ek ksub reord";
$remailer{"rmadillo"} = "<remailer at armadillo.com> mix cpunk pgp hash latent cut";
catalyst at netcom.com is _not_ a remailer.
lmccarth at ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer.
usura at replay.com is _not_ a remailer.

Use "premail -getkeys pgpkeys at kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu" to get PGP keys
for the remailers. Fingering this address works too.

21 Apr 1995: The new version of premail (0.33) is out, with direct
posting, perl5 and better MH support, and numerous bug fixes.

Last ping: Mon 21 Aug 95 6:00:07 PDT
remailer  email address                        history  latency  uptime
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
spook    remailer at spook.alias.net         +-------+--+  2:37:07  99.99%
portal   hfinney at shell.portal.com         #.-*#***##*#    20:53  99.99%
replay   remailer at replay.com              *****++**+**    11:22  99.99%
alumni   hal at alumni.caltech.edu           *.-*#*******    26:11  99.99%
crown    mixmaster at kether.alias.net       ------------  2:20:01  99.99%
hacktic  remailer at utopia.hacktic.nl       *****++**+**    12:14  99.99%
hroller  hroller at c2.org                   -##*-***##**    11:48  99.93%
syrinx   syrinx at c2.org                    -----------   2:02:23  99.92%
mix      mixmaster at remail.obscura.com     -++------..   9:59:29  99.91%
c2       remail at c2.org                    -++++++++++     47:13  99.90%
flame    remailer at flame.alias.net         ++++++++++++    55:03  99.83%
ideath   remailer at ideath.goldenbear.com   -.-..----.-   5:50:27  99.75%
vox      remail at vox.xs4all.nl             .---------   12:10:38  99.99%
ford     remailer at bi-node.zerberus.de     **#***-****#     5:54  99.42%
bsu-cs   nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu           ###*#_.-##+#  3:53:51  99.20%
vishnu   mixmaster at vishnu.alias.net       -- --- ----   3:01:49  99.07%
gondolin mixmaster at gondolin.org           *--*-* **+      31:07  98.87%
rmadillo remailer at armadillo.com           **__.++++++*  3:57:22  98.33%
extropia remail at extropia.wimsey.com       .   .--._.-  16:59:51  95.74%
penet    anon at anon.penet.fi               +++*---- -++  4:27:59  90.66%
rahul    homer at rahul.net                  ##**#***#*+#     6:58  99.99%
rebma    remailer at rebma.mn.org            -             9:53:43  10.67%

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).

   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.

   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.

   ek
          Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header.

   special
          Accepts only pgp encrypted messages.

   mix
          Can accept messages in Mixmaster format.

   reord
          Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note:
          I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and
          haven't verified the reord info myself.

   mon
          Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email.

   filter
          Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If
          not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined
          for public forums are subject to filtering.

Raph Levien