List of reliable remailers

Mon Sep 11 06:50:45 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{"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{"c2"} = "<remail at c2.org> eric pgp hash reord";
$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 hash cut reord mix post";
$remailer{"ford"} = "<remailer at bi-node.zerberus.de> cpunk pgp hash ksub";
$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{"robo"} = "<robo at c2.org> cpunk hash mix";
$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 reord";
$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";
$remailer{"ncognito"} = "<ncognito at gate.net> cpunk";
$remailer{"precip"} = "<mixmaster at mix.precipice.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
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.

Note: penet is *down* for a few days. Check back here for updates.

Last ping: Mon 11 Sep 95 4:00:27 PDT
remailer  email address                        history  latency  uptime
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
alumni   hal at alumni.caltech.edu           *--****+**+*     9:23  99.99%
hacktic  remailer at utopia.hacktic.nl       *****+****+*    12:51  99.99%
hroller  hroller at c2.org                   **********+*     7:48  99.99%
syrinx   syrinx at c2.org                    ------++-++*  1:16:52  99.99%
c2       remail at c2.org                    +++++++++++*    39:22  99.99%
flame    remailer at flame.alias.net         ++++++*-+*+*  1:20:26  99.99%
spook    remailer at spook.alias.net         --.--+-----   3:55:18  99.99%
bsu-cs   nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu           ***-******+*    13:02  99.98%
replay   remailer at replay.com              *****+****+*    15:04  99.93%
ideath   remailer at ideath.goldenbear.com   ----.---+---  3:51:00  99.83%
ncognito ncognito at gate.net                * ** ****++*     7:04  99.08%
rmadillo remailer at armadillo.com           ++ + *+++*++    54:25  99.06%
precip   mixmaster at mix.precipice.com                      52:55  99.07%
ford     remailer at bi-node.zerberus.de     **********+*     5:54  98.82%
crown    mixmaster at kether.alias.net       -- ---+--+--  3:32:46  98.04%
extropia remail at extropia.wimsey.com       _---.- -..-  12:48:37  97.01%
portal   hfinney at shell.portal.com         ****  *+ *+*     5:57  96.81%
vishnu   mixmaster at vishnu.alias.net        ---------+*  4:59:22  96.27%
robo     robo at c2.org                      **********+*    11:03  95.95%
rahul    homer at rahul.net                  +*+*******+*     6:52  99.99%
gondolin mixmaster at gondolin.org           -- . -+*--.   6:29:14  89.70%
mix      mixmaster at remail.obscura.com     ---+---___.  15:25:37  87.63%

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