1996-03-07 - Re: (Fwd) Gov’t run anon servers

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From: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-03-07 05:41:08 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:41:08 +0800

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From: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:41:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Gov't run anon servers
Message-ID: <199603051038.LAA17028@kampai.euronet.nl>
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Hal wrote:

> However, if I were a computer-savvy law enforcement agent, and I wanted
> to track messages through one of my remailers, I would try a
> technological approach.  I would first break the key for my remailer.
> That is trivial.  The passphrase is in PLAINTEXT in the script file
> which runs the remailer!.  It has to be.  That is true of all automated
> remailers.

The passphrase could be kept in memory and entered
every time the system is started.

Gary





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