Remailer origin lines

* Reply to msg originally in CYPHERPUNKS

 Uu> 1) Chop off anything that even  looks  signature-like, whether the
 Uu> user intended it or not -- I consider this ugly, evil, and
 Uu> unreliable, and likely to chop stuff I want kept and leave stuff I'd
 Uu> like chopped.

Yes, this seems fraught with problems.

 Uu> A "Dont-Mess-With-Trailers:" header line would help a bit.

I agree.

 Uu> I don't know how much of
 Uu> M.
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 Uu> M. Stirner - via RBBS-NET node 8:914/201
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 Uu> was added by the author, how much by the Blue Wave and/or
 Uu> 8:914/201, or even for certain whether M. Stirner is the author or
 Uu> merely a  machine owner; I'm guessing the author, and I'm guessing
 Uu> everything but the initial "M." was added automagically under the
 Uu> machine-owner's control.

The BlueWave blurb was added by the program & can be stripped by
re-editing the message before upload.  Everything else is out of my
control completely & added automagically by the host or the UUCP
gateway.  The sucker stays, no matter what I do.  Some anonymity!

 Uu> 2) Cut-Here: lines of various sorts, either following a pre-specified
 Uu> syntax or a MIME-like flexible syntax.  I like this approach, since
 Uu> it gives the user a reasonable level of control and very seldom
 Uu> guesses wrong, but there are so many standards to choose from, and a
 Uu> proper implementation would have to leave in the line (or add an
 Uu> equivalent) at each hop to avoid accretion of path-traces, and make
 Uu> sure it gets the correct  syntax for each following remailer.  And
 Uu> the user  does  have to explicitly  request it, which some people
 Uu> view as a problem, especially if they don't know the characteristics
 Uu> of the later mail-handlers in the chain.

I, personally, could live with it just to get the remailers to be truly
anonymous.  The rest of the user input is not especially easy anyway,
particularly if accessing internet via a gateway.  Another line wouldn't
kill me.

 Uu> 3) Encryption-based systems, which only retain the encrypted portion;
 Uu> this means the user has to know more about the remailers being
 Uu> used, and there has to be a standard for expressing which remailers
 Uu> to forward to if more than one will be used (which it probably will
 Uu> be, for anybody security-aware enough to really want an encrypting
 Uu> remailer.)

As an interrim measure I guess this is what I'll have to do, but as an
early PGP partisan, I've had enough PGP experience not to be turned off
by the extra trouble.  Most casual users would be.  In any case, I think
that this is undoubtedly the most user-labor-intensive solution.

 Uu> Solving the problem for message  headers  is tougher than solving it
 Uu> for trailers.

In that case, let's have this solved by Monday. 8-)

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In message <47.2C2951B0@wyrm.rbbs-net.ORG>, M. Stirner writes:
> 
>  Uu> A "Dont-Mess-With-Trailers:" header line would help a bit.
> 
> The BlueWave blurb was added by the program & can be stripped by
> re-editing the message before upload.  Everything else is out of my
> control completely & added automagically by the host or the UUCP
> gateway.  The sucker stays, no matter what I do.  Some anonymity!
> 

	How about a header line such as:

X-Cut-End-Lines: 6
	Which would instruct the remailer to cut the last six lines off the
mail message as it receives it. Thus a user could figure out how many
lines at the end of his message is added on without his control and
instruct the remailer to cut out that amount of lines.


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