(Fwd) Gov't run anon servers

Gary Howland gary at kampai.euronet.nl
Wed Mar 6 21:41:08 PST 1996


Hal wrote:

> However, if I were a computer-savvy law enforcement agent, and I wanted
> to track messages through one of my remailers, I would try a
> technological approach.  I would first break the key for my remailer.
> That is trivial.  The passphrase is in PLAINTEXT in the script file
> which runs the remailer!.  It has to be.  That is true of all automated
> remailers.

The passphrase could be kept in memory and entered
every time the system is started.

Gary






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