List of reliable remailers
Raph Levien
raph at CS.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Feb 3 06:50:26 PST 1997
I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed
information about remailer features and reliability.
To use it, just finger remailer-list at kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu
There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of
interesting links to remailer-related resources, at:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html
This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP
encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see:
http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html
For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger
pgpkeys at kiwi.cs.berkeley.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 at kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu.
$remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail at miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special";
$remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster at remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?";
$remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer at replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek";
$remailer{'alpha'} = '<alias at alpha.c2.org> alpha pgp';
$remailer{'nymrod'} = '<nymrod at nym.jpunix.com> alpha pgp';
$remailer{"lead"} = "<mix at zifi.genetics.utah.edu> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer at remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack at holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer at dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer at cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock at rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord";
$remailer{'nym'} = '<config at nym.alias.net> newnym pgp';
$remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer at huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix at squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman at jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?";
$remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias at alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp';
$remailer{"dustbin"} = "<dustman at athensnet.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek mix reord middle ?";
$remailer{'weasel'} = '<config at weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp';
$remailer{"death"} = "<x at deathsdoor.com> cpunk pgp hash latent post";
$remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman at cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?";
catalyst at netcom.com is _not_ a remailer.
lmccarth at ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer.
usura at replay.com is _not_ a remailer.
remailer at crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer.
There is no remailer at relay.com.
Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator:
(cyber mix)
(weasel squirrel)
The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you
can use the nym or weasel (newnym style) nymservers.
The cyber nymserver is quite reliable for outgoing mail (which is
what's measured here), but is exhibiting serious reliability problems
for incoming mail.
The squirrel and winsock remailers accept PGP encrypted mail only.
403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the
Berkeley WWW server. This seems to be fixed now.
The penet remailer is closed.
Last update: Mon 3 Feb 97 6:48:17 PST
remailer email address history latency uptime
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nym config at nym.alias.net #**#+*#**-#+ 4:51 100.00%
dustbin dustman at athensnet.com ---+-------+ 1:50:51 99.99%
weasel config at weasel.owl.de ++++--+++++ 1:09:14 99.85%
lead mix at zifi.genetics.utah.edu ++--++++++++ 50:42 99.80%
balls remailer at huge.cajones.com ###*###+-- # 5:45 99.62%
squirrel mix at squirrel.owl.de ++++--+++ + 1:07:30 99.46%
cyber alias at alias.cyberpass.net +*+ *++++*++ 40:43 99.23%
winsock winsock at rigel.cyberpass.net ----------- 3:42:43 99.09%
lucifer lucifer at dhp.com + ++++++++ 47:05 99.03%
exon remailer at remailer.nl.com ##### #* *# 2:02 98.68%
middle middleman at jpunix.com ++.--.- ---+ 5:48:30 98.23%
haystack haystack at holy.cow.net ***#*+# *#-+ 15:27 97.21%
extropia remail at miron.vip.best.com ------- .- 6:28:55 96.31%
replay remailer at replay.com * +++-*** 15:53 93.06%
reno middleman at cyberpass.net +--+ --+ 1:20:32 91.27%
mix mixmaster at remail.obscura.com +-.-_-*+ 14:45:36 77.02%
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).
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.
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.
ek
Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header.
special
Accepts only pgp encrypted messages.
mix
Can accept messages in Mixmaster format.
reord
Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note:
I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and
haven't verified the reord info myself.
mon
Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email.
filter
Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If
not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined
for public forums are subject to filtering.
Raph Levien
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