NODE cffb3afbMore on remailers
Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu>Sat, 29 Jan 94 15:38:35 PST
I wrote an automated script to ping the following remailers:
hfinney@shell.portal.com
catalyst@netcom.com
elee7h5@rosebud.ee.uh.edu
nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
remailer@chaos.bsu.edu
hh@cicada.berkeley.edu
hh@pmantis.berkeley.edu
hh@soda.berkeley.edu
ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu
remailer@merde.dis.org
Results were a bit faster with the automated program than before:
Here they are:
Test #1: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 12:52:58 -0500 (EST)
nobody@rosebud.ee.uh.edu 12:53:56 (+0:00:58)
catalyst-remailer@netcom.com 12:53:57 (+0:00:59)
nobody@shell.portal.com 12:53:57 (+0:00:59)
nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu 12:53:59 (+0:01:01)
remailer-admin@chaos.bsu.edu 12:54:06 (+0:01:07)
nobody@cicada.berkeley.edu 12:54:09 (+0:01:11)
nobody@soda.berkeley.edu 12:54:13 (+0:01:15)
nobody@pmantis.berkeley.edu 12:54:16 (+0:01:18)
remailer@dis.org 13:05:35 (+0:12:37)
nobody@eli-remailer 15:32:51 (+2:39:53)
Test #2: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 17:18:36 -0500 (EST)
nobody@rosebud.ee.uh.edu 17:19:04 (+0:00:28)
catalyst-remailer@netcom.com 17:19:06 (+0:00:30)
nobody@shell.portal.com 17:19:07 (+0:00:31)
nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu 17:19:19 (+0:00:43)
remailer-admin@chaos.bsu.edu 17:19:19 (+0:00:43)
nobody@cicada.berkeley.edu 17:19:24 (+0:00:48)
nobody@pmantis.berkeley.edu 17:19:31 (+0:00:55)
nobody@soda.berkeley.edu 17:19:42 (+0:01:06)
remailer@dis.org 17:20:43 (+0:02:07)
nobody@eli-remailer 17:49:23 (+0:30:47)
Results seem to vary depending on current network load and other
factors, but some remailers do seem to be generally faster than others.
I didn't test elee7h5@rosebud.ee.uh.edu since it always batches its
messages and sends them out at midnite. remail@extropia.wimsey.com only
accepts encrypted mail so I'll have to try that one seperately sometime.
Note: hal@alumni.cco.caltech.edu forwards to hfinney@shell.portal.com
Also, 00x@uclink.berkeley.edu forwards to hh@soda.berkeley.edu
This makes these addresses a little slower, but I guess it helps foil
traffic analysis a bit...
Are there only 12 cypherpunk remailers plus two forwarding addresses?
There were over twenty at one time... Please let me know if I've missed
any.