NODE 262a3947List of reliable remailers
Raph Levien <raph@CS.Berkeley.EDU>Tue, 6 Sep 94 11:08:39 PDT
I have written and installed a remailer pinging script which
collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability.
To use it, just finger remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu
There is also a Web version of the same information, at:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
Please let me know about any other remailers which I missed. I've
only included remailers which can mail to arbitrary addresses, so I
already know chop and twwells are missing.
This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP
encrypting client for outgoing mail, which is available at:
ftp://kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/raph/premail-0.22.tar.gz
This is the current info:
REMAILER LIST
This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first
part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration
options and special features for each of the remailers. The second
part shows the 10-day history, and average latency and uptime for each
remailer. You can also get this list by fingering
remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu.
$remailer{"chaos"} = "<remailer@chaos.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub";
$remailer{"vox"} = "<remail@vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk oldpgp.";
$remailer{"avox"} = "<anon@vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk oldpgp";
$remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail@extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special";
$remailer{"kaiwan"} = "<ghio@kaiwan.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut";
$remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney@shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash";
$remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal@alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash";
$remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub";
$remailer{"rebma"} = "<remailer@rebma.mn.org> cpunk pgp hash";
$remailer{"jpunix"} = "<remailer@jpunix.com> cpunk pgp hash";
$remailer{"wien"} = "<remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at> cpunk pgp hash nsub";
$remailer{"c2"} = "<remail@c2.org> eric pgp hash";
$remailer{"soda"} = "<remailer@csua.berkeley.edu> eric pgp.";
$remailer{"penet"} = "<anon@anon.penet.fi> penet";
$remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub";
$remailer{"usura"} = "<usura@xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. hash latent cut";
$remailer{"leri"} = "<remail@leri.edu> cpunk pgp hash";
Last ping: Tue 6 Sep 94 11:00:01 PDT
remailer email address history latency uptime
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
jpunix remailer@jpunix.com **+**-**++## 7:36 99.99%
bsu-cs nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu **++******## 4:47 99.99%
wien remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at *-**+*-*+*** 12:38 99.99%
extropia remail@extropia.wimsey.com --+++---..-+ 5:20:51 99.99%
c2 remail@c2.org .-++++-+***+ 42:07 99.99%
vox remail@vox.hacktic.nl --------- . 10:30:39 99.99%
chaos remailer@chaos.bsu.edu *#****###### 0:57 99.92%
ideath remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com **-*****+*#+ 12:50 99.87%
leri remail@leri.edu --+*****+*#+ 22:09 99.83%
soda remailer@csua.berkeley.edu +++++++++..+ 2:45:46 99.58%
kaiwan ghio@kaiwan.com +** + ++--** 19:32 99.28%
alumni hal@alumni.caltech.edu **+****+ * * 5:03 99.15%
portal hfinney@shell.portal.com **+****+ #* 3:36 98.22%
rebma remailer@rebma.mn.org -----*+--- + 5:32:23 94.53%
usura usura@xs4all.nl ****+*+* -* 22:49 87.85%
penet anon@anon.penet.fi _ _+__++** 43:44:31 73.46%
Suggested path: wien;bsu-cs;jpunix
For more info: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
Options and features
cpunk
A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To:
field.
eric
A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead.
penet
The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses
X-Anon-To: in the header.
pgp
Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the
keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email
address, should be used as the encryption key ID.
oldpgp
Remailer does not like messages encoded with MIT PGP 2.6. Other
versions of PGP, including 2.3a and 2.6ui, work fine.
hash
Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of
outgoing messages.
ksub
Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode.
nsub
Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode.
latent
Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option.
cut
Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option.
special
Accepts only pgp encrypted messages.
History key
* # response in less than 5 minutes.
* * response in less than 1 hour.
* + response in less than 4 hours.
* - response in less than 24 hours.
* . response in more than 1 day.
* _ response came back too late (more than 2 days).
If you've got a Web page, please feel free to include a link to
this page. If you think your Web page is relevant to the subject of
remailers, let me know and I'll link it in.
Comments and suggestions welcome!
Note to remailer operators: this script generates hourly ping
messages. If you don't want that, let me know and I will take your
mailer off the list, or increase the interval between pings.
Raph Levien
NODE 74d60032Re: List of reliable remailers
tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)Tue, 6 Sep 94 12:54:39 PDT
>
> I have written and installed a remailer pinging script which
> collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability.
>
> To use it, just finger remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu
>
> There is also a Web version of the same information, at:
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
Just to give some kudos to Raph, I've used his "finger" service and
have been shocked at how _good_ it is! Seeing the uptimes, delays,
etc. is very useful in planning remailer chains.
I haven't had the time to explore his other tools, though.
Between this pinging service, and those of Matt Ghio and Sameer Parekh
(haven't checked it in a while), welcome progress has been made.
--Tim May
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NODE 1c077668Re: List of reliable remailers
sameer <sameer@c2.org>Tue, 6 Sep 94 14:07:25 PDT
>
> Just to give some kudos to Raph, I've used his "finger" service and
> have been shocked at how _good_ it is! Seeing the uptimes, delays,
> etc. is very useful in planning remailer chains.
>
> I haven't had the time to explore his other tools, though.
>
'premail' is excellent. I just this weekend hacked elm and
pine to worrrk with premail, which I posted to the list. (these
versions of elm and pine are installed on c2.org -- premail is not yet
publically installed.)
> Between this pinging service, and those of Matt Ghio and Sameer Parekh
> (haven't checked it in a while), welcome progress has been made.
>
My pinger (on remail@c2.org and remailer@csua.berkeley.edu)
has not been very reliable. I wanted a remailer pinger service
available for my blind server and client projects and having seen
Raph's setup I am deferring to his. .
I hope to be able to incorporate the excellent setup that Raph
is running into a client for the blind server running on omega.c2.org.
Regarding Tim's earlier comments about for-pay remailers and
such. I regard remail@c2.org a for-pay/prfossionally run
remailer. While there is no charge associated with using the remailer,
it is running as one of the many services offered by the for-profit
Community ConneXion system. Thus I hope to keep this remailer very
reliable, very strong, and Raph's setup will hopefully show this.
(The blind server is an actual for-pay service but I expect
that most users will not use it to a degree more than they get for
free when they set up an account -- I should make sure I reword my
description to emphasize that. [I suspect the reason thhat not many
people have signed up [the client *is* hard to use, yes, and slightly
buggy, but it works.. that is a reason, but not the main one, in my
eyes is that people see that it is a forpay service and don't realize
that light usage is free])
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