Anonymity : Remailers

Simply changing or clearing the "Real Name" field in your newsreader setup won't help you much in those cases. It's still trivial to trace a message back to its originating site, and of course the system administrator there can easily look up the sender's real name.

A better solution is to use an anonymous remailer. These systems either give you an anonymous address, to which other people can send you mail, which is then forwarded to your real address (this is sometimes referred to as a pseudonymous server), or they post or mail your message without any trace of the sender's name or address.

What is a remailer and how does it work?

1).. The server receives the email message.

2).. All headers are stripped and replaced with bogus ones.

3).. The message is encrypted using PGP.

4).. A random re-mailer chain is selected (usually 3).

5).. Message goes through the re-mailer chain and arrives at the server.

6).. The server decrypts and sends your message to it's destination.

As you can see, it is unkown to the server, or the recipient of the message where the message originated from. It's not even traceable back to the server, much less the original poster.

There are three types of remailers:

• Cypherpunk remailers, also called type I
• Mixmaster remailers, also called type II
• Pseudonymous remailers, also called type III

• A Cypherpunk remailer sends the message to the recipient stripping away the sender address on it. You can not answer to the message sent via Cyperpunk remailer. You can encrypt the message sent to the remailer, and the remailer will decrypt it and send it to the recipient address hidden inside the encrypted message. In addition, you can chain 2 or 3 remailers, so each remailer can't know who is sending a message to who. Cypherpunk remailers do not keep logs of transactions.
• A Mixmaster remailer allows receivers to answer messages. To receive an answer to your message, you have to create encrypted reply blocks. A reply block contains instructions to reach your real address. In order to use a Mixmaster remailer, you must have a program to write your message. That programme must be downloaded and complied on your PC.
• A Pseudonymous remailer, simply takes away the email address of the sender, gives a pseudonym to the sender and sends the message to the intended recipient (who can be answered via that remailer).

Anonymity : Advanced Direct Remailer
Advanced Direct Remailer (ADR) is a powerful remailer and mass mailer which sends your messages straight out to the recipient's mail server (without your ISP's SMTP server). ADR realizes multi-threaded direct delivery, and so works several times quicker than usual email client.

Anonymity : Ultimate Anonymity
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