NODE bec953d7List of reliable remailers
Raph Levien <raph@CS.Berkeley.EDU>Mon, 3 Oct 94 06:49:37 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:
fftp://soda.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/premail/premail-0.22.tar.gz
For the PGP public keys of the remailers, as well as some help on
how to use them, finger remailer.help.all@chaos.bsu.edu
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 12-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.xs4all.nl> cpunk oldpgp. post";
$remailer{"avox"} = "<anon@vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk oldpgp post";
$remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail@extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special";
$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 latent cut post";
$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. post";
$remailer{"penet"} = "<anon@anon.penet.fi> penet post";
$remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub";
$remailer{"usura"} = "<usura@xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. hash latent cut post";
$remailer{"leri"} = "<remail@leri.edu> cpunk pgp hash";
$remailer{"desert"} = "<remail@desert.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. post";
$remailer{"underdog"} = "<lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post";
$remailer{"nately"} = "<remailer@nately.ucsd.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut";
$remailer{"efrias"} = "<efrias@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> cpunk pgp hash";
catalyst@netcom.com is _not_ a remailer.
Last ping: Mon 3 Oct 94 6:00:02 PDT
remailer email address history latency uptime
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
c2 remail@c2.org *+-********* 13:09 99.99%
wien remailer@ds1.wu-wien.ac.at ***#+**--#** 19:02 99.99%
chaos remailer@chaos.bsu.edu **####**+##* 2:56 99.99%
leri remail@leri.edu ***#**#***** 6:38 99.99%
portal hfinney@shell.portal.com *##*#+***#** 4:01 99.99%
ideath remailer@ideath.goldenbear.com *****-*+- ** 1:40:23 99.99%
underdog lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu ***+******** 4:41 99.98%
penet anon@anon.penet.fi *****+-+**** 47:05 99.96%
jpunix remailer@jpunix.com *-*#**-**-** 11:04 99.96%
vox remail@vox.xs4all.nl .-......-- 12:10:26 99.94%
bsu-cs nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu **# #****#-* 13:42 99.76%
efrias efrias@csugrad.cs.vt.edu *#***** 4:30 99.79%
rebma remailer@rebma.mn.org -+---*--.-*- 10:13:40 99.58%
extropia remail@extropia.wimsey.com ++ +-++++*+ 40:30 99.40%
soda remailer@csua.berkeley.edu -......_.. 9:25:30 99.31%
nately remailer@nately.ucsd.edu -++++- ++++* 33:37 99.15%
usura usura@xs4all.nl +***..-** ** 1:16:06 98.42%
desert remail@desert.xs4all.nl .---...---- 24:19:31 84.16%
alumni hal@alumni.caltech.edu *****+** 6:06 79.87%
Suggested path: chaos;wien;c2
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.
post
Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header.
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 7ccc838eRe: List of reliable remailers
Istvan von Keszi <vkisosza@nucleus.com>Mon, 3 Oct 94 12:13:33 PDT
On Mon, 3 Oct 1994, Raph Levien wrote:
> 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
Thanks Raph. This is very helpful for those of us who are code
handicapped. This is very helpful as a general guide.
Unfortunately, I've found that the information that it provides does not
help me with remailer reliability. I've seen a remailer that supposedly
has a latency of 8 or 9 hours, actually delay 24.
This makes your script fairly ineffectual.
You can't do diddly with bad data ...
--
Istvan.
NODE cd5ad5a3Re: List of reliable remailers
cjl <cjl@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>Mon, 3 Oct 94 16:44:18 PDT
On Mon, 3 Oct 1994, Istvan von Keszi wrote:
> Thanks Raph. This is very helpful for those of us who are code
> handicapped. This is very helpful as a general guide.
>
> Unfortunately, I've found that the information that it provides does not
> help me with remailer reliability. I've seen a remailer that supposedly
> has a latency of 8 or 9 hours, actually delay 24.
>
> This makes your script fairly ineffectual.
>
> You can't do diddly with bad data ...
>
> Istvan.
You are perhaps more than just code handicapped. It seems you also fail to
perceive the implicit YMMV clause that comes with using a service
*provided gratis* by someone else. Ask Raph real nicely, and maybe he'll
send you the code for the remail-pinging script so you can run it from
your particular corner of the Net, it wouldn't be unprecedented, after
all, Raph has freely distributed his hack of premail.
But then again it wouldn't be unprecedented for him to tell you go stuff
yourself. Genuine bug reports on an author's work are best discussed first
in private E-mail, and brought to the attention of the list if it is more
than a trivial gripe. BTW, I don't recall seeing the FedEx remailer that
promises delivery by 10:00 am the next business morning, or in fact any
remailer that promises delivery at all. Caveat poster.
It is an ill-mannered guest who complains that the wonderous toys
provided for him to play with sometimes fail to satisfy his every whim.
C. J. Leonard ( / "DNA is groovy"
\ / - Watson & Crick
<cjl@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> / \ <-- major groove
( \
Finger for public key \ )
Strong-arm for secret key / <-- minor groove
Thumb-screws for pass-phrase / )