List of reliable remailers

Mon Aug 26 11:42:12 PDT 1996

   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. For more information, see:
http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html

   For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger
pgpkeys at kiwi.cs.berkeley.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{"extropia"} = "<remail at miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special";
$remailer{"c2"} = "<remail at c2.org> eric pgp hash reord";
$remailer{"penet"} = "<anon at anon.penet.fi> penet post";
$remailer{"flame"} = "<remailer at flame.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut post reord";
$remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster at remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?";
$remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer at replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek";
$remailer{"ecafe"} = "<cpunk at remail.ecafe.org> cpunk mix";
$remailer{"amnesia"} = "<amnesia at chardos.connix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ksub";
$remailer{'alpha'} = '<alias at alpha.c2.org> alpha pgp';
$remailer{'nymrod'} = '<nymrod at nym.jpunix.com> alpha pgp';
$remailer{"lead"} = "<mix at zifi.genetics.utah.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"nemesis"} = "<remailer at meaning.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut";
$remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer at remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"vegas"} = "<remailer at vegas.gateway.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut";
$remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack at holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"ncognito"} = "<ncognito at rigel.cyberpass.net> mix cpunk pgp hash latent";
$remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer at dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer at cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock at c2.org> cpunk pgp hash cut ksub reord";
$remailer{'nym'} = '<config at nym.alias.net> newnym pgp';
$remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer at huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix at squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman at jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord";
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.

Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator:
(c2 alpha)
(flame replay)
(alumni portal)

The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse.

Last update: Mon 26 Aug 96 6:48:16 PDT
remailer  email address                        history  latency  uptime
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
exon     remailer at remailer.nl.com                ***-*    17:17  99.96%
mix      mixmaster at remail.obscura.com     +-++-+--++++  2:27:19  99.95%
jam      remailer at cypherpunks.ca          *******.****  1:14:34  99.94%
nemesis  remailer at meaning.com             ************    15:42  99.93%
squirrel mix at squirrel.owl.de                     +-+-   2:27:26  99.62%
penet    anon at anon.penet.fi               ...---..--   21:06:37  99.58%
replay   remailer at replay.com              **** *++* **     5:07  99.10%
middle   middleman at jpunix.com                      --   1:34:56  99.02%
amnesia  amnesia at chardos.connix.com       -------- --   3:52:36  98.47%
lead     mix at zifi.genetics.utah.edu       +  +++++++-+    52:43  96.86%
winsock  winsock at c2.org                   ..------  -- 12:52:32  95.16%
balls    remailer at huge.cajones.com        *******# ***     4:39  92.86%
haystack haystack at holy.cow.net            * - -*#*#*      37:17  83.96%
extropia remail at miron.vip.best.com        ----     -    5:40:19  73.28%

   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