[87166] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailer Attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Fri Sep 26 10:33:33 1997
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:47:15 +0200 (GMT+0200)
In-Reply-To: <7e4f533938c10942e5d1ef49ca8e16da@anon.efga.org> from "Anonymous" at Sep 26, 97 03:03:23 am
From: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Reply-To: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
> One problem with operating a nym is that people almost always respond
> to it with suspicion and hostility, even on this list. It would be
> nice to have an ordinary looking e-mail address that took in messages,
> encrypted them for your public key, and then sent them out to
> alt.anonymous.messages for pickup. Going the other way it would be
> nice if the account would accept signed messages and send them out as
> normal e-mail or news articles. This would allow nyms to participate
> in NetWorld like everyone else.
>
> Note that this does not require one to trust the operator of the
> machine - all they have is a public key and no information of your
> identity. This should be easy to set up.
That is what nym servers (denoted as "alpha" and "newnym" in the
remailer lists) do. See http://anon.efga.org/anon for more
information.
