List of reliable remailers

Raph Levien raph at CS.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Jan 9 06:48:43 PST 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, 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 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 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";
$remailer{"soda"} = "<remailer at csua.berkeley.edu> eric post";
$remailer{"penet"} = "<anon at anon.penet.fi> penet post";
$remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer at ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub";
$remailer{"usura"} = "<usura at replay.com> cpunk pgp. hash latent cut post";
$remailer{"desert"} = "<remail at desert.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. post";
$remailer{"nately"} = "<remailer at nately.ucsd.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut";
$remailer{"xs4all"} = "<remailer at xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek";
$remailer{"flame"} = "<tomaz at flame.sinet.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek";
$remailer{"rahul"} = "<homer at rahul.net> cpunk";
$remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster at nately.ucsd.edu> cpunk hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"q"} = "<q at c2.org> cpunk hash latent cut ek";
catalyst at netcom.com is _not_ a remailer.

Last ping: Mon 9 Jan 95 6:00:01 PST
remailer  email address                        history  latency  uptime
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
nately   remailer at nately.ucsd.edu         ++++++++++    1:28:30  99.99%
rahul    homer at rahul.net                  **#**##****#     4:31  99.99%
mix      mixmaster at nately.ucsd.edu        ++-+-++-++      48:36  99.99%
penet    anon at anon.penet.fi               *+****+*****    28:32  99.99%
vox      remail at vox.xs4all.nl             -----------  14:34:13  99.99%
usura    usura at replay.com                  -- -+--+***    22:31  99.44%
bsu-cs   nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu           +##**##***+#    23:14  99.26%
ideath   remailer at ideath.goldenbear.com   *  --- -----  2:08:58  99.12%
q        q at c2.org                          --+--*++--   2:33:18  98.62%
soda     remailer at csua.berkeley.edu       -..-.- ...    8:10:14  98.47%
alumni   hal at alumni.caltech.edu           ++ *-**+****     7:37  97.74%
portal   hfinney at shell.portal.com         ** *-#*#*#**     5:32  97.74%
c2       remail at c2.org                    *--*+*    *+  1:13:45  95.50%
desert   remail at desert.xs4all.nl          _.----.---   19:54:01  94.80%
extropia remail at extropia.wimsey.com       ++__   +++++ 13:02:14  84.83%
xs4all   remailer at xs4all.nl               *--    -+***    16:29  76.54%
rebma    remailer at rebma.mn.org            -*___-__-    31:31:05  70.47%
flame    tomaz at flame.sinet.org            -*-*+           29:22  37.83%

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






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