Instant Remailers

[middle-man-admin at alpha.c2.org]

On Sun, 19 May 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> >It is possible for someone to operate an anonymous remailer anonymously.
> >Just get a UNIX shell account under a fake name, pay with cash, and set up
> >the remailing software.  The identity of the operator of such a remailer
> >would be difficult, if not impossible, to discover.
> 
> I'm always surprised that this hasn't been happening; maybe it will when
> the new clients become available.

	I'm currently working on a version of Mixmaster that allows an
individual to run a remailer anonymously. The idea is to set up the
primary address of the remailer as a nym. That was easy. I've almost
finished the modifications to Mixmaster to allow it to call Raph Levien's
premail package. I've set it up to cause all outgoing mail to chain
through 2 more random remailers before the message is delivered to the
destination. This effectively allows me to operate as a "hidden
remailer-in-the-middle". I'll provide more details when I finish the code
and it's been thoroughly tested.

middle-man-admin