New Remailer

Could someone give me some quick direction on installing  and
running a new remailer.  

Due to system constraints, I've had to rewrite some of the mailer
software, I've tested it, and it seems to operate fine.  

My question is what is necessary, to create an address for the
remailer?  I'd like it addressed as something other than my
personal account.  Do I contact my sysadmins for a new address,
or is this something which is user configurable.

Thanks

BTW:  Do I open up the remailer to the public or do I ask some of
the users of remailers to help me test it prior to a world release.

Istvan Oszaraz von Keszi writes:

> My question is what is necessary, to create an address for the
> remailer?  I'd like it addressed as something other than my
> personal account.  Do I contact my sysadmins for a new address,
> or is this something which is user configurable.
> 


This reminds me of an idea: why not create "symbolic links" between
pseudonyms chosen by the remailer operators and their actual physical
sites?

The idea is this: fred@uptight.org wants to run a remailer, but he
doesn't want his managers at "uptight.org" to know he's advertising
this service (e.g., by postings in a public place, by the finger of
remailer@soda.berkeley.edu, etc.).

He wants a "dead drop" to forward to him mail intended to be remailed.

What he wants is an alias at another site, run probably by a
sympathetic Cypherpunks who has more control over his own site. So,
joe@uptight.org arranges with eric@freedom.org to establish this
alias.

(eric@freedom.org knows what's going on....the only security is that
based on the trust between eric and joe.)

I know, I know, this is "security through obscurity." (In a sense.)
And eric@freedom.org might _just as well_ run the second or third or
nth remailer _himself_.

But the advantage of there being _many_ physical people acting as
remailers is still there. And it encourages people who might shy away
from running a remailer to do so.

The overall security is at least not any lower than if joe@uptight.org
got the remailer traffic directly.

There are other wrinkles. I can give more of my thoughts if there's
any interest.

Not to volunteer anybody's copious spare time, but I have a hunch a
Perl program could implement this automatic reflector easily. Maybe
some mailers can already handle this (I don't see any commands in elm,
my mailer, that can do selective bouncing/forwarding....kind of like a
kill file, except the targetted address gets forwarded.)

Any thoughts?

--Tim May


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> Not to volunteer anybody's copious spare time, but I have a hunch a
> Perl program could implement this automatic reflector easily.

It's a one-liner in the .forward or .maildelivery file you edit to
set up a remailer.  Almost anybody could act as a "bounce point" in
this fashion.  I don't think it would do much for joe@uptight.org,
though.  root@uptight is more likely to notice the traffic than to
happen across joe advertising his remailer in alt.random.group.

> (I don't see any commands in elm,
> my mailer, that can do selective bouncing/forwarding...

Try "man forward".  (Or "man maildelivery" in my case, but probably
not netcom's.)  This sort of handling happens before the MUA sees
the mail.

   Eli   ebrandt@hmc.edu

"Istvan Oszaraz von Keszi" <vkisosza@acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:

> Could someone give me some quick direction on installing
> and running a new remailer.  
> 
> Due to system constraints, I've had to rewrite some of the
> mailer software, I've tested it, and it seems to operate fine.  
> 
> My question is what is necessary, to create an address for
> the remailer?  I'd like it addressed as something other than
> my personal account.  Do I contact my sysadmins for a new
> address, or is this something which is user configurable.

Well, many people run their remailer from their personal account, but if
you want a special account for your remailer, you'll have to ask your
sysadmin.

If you want any help with testing it, I can help, and I'm sure many
others would be willing to as well.

Thanks for running a remailer!