From: nobody@rosebud.ee.uh.edu
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 93 20:54:27 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Server for Anonymous-headers
Message-ID: <9307210353.AA02731@toad.com>
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from Henrik:
>2. Server for Anonymous-headers.
>
>My problem with anonymous-headers (that is reversed chains of PGP-encrypted
>adresses for remailers) are that they:
>
>         1) Are too big and ugly,
>         2) Needs common updates as remailers goes down.
>
>Therefor, wouldn't it be nice with servers like the public-keys servers where
>you could request the latest header for a pseudonym?
>
>Maybe even be able to mail directly to that server with pseudonym@server...
>and get the mail redirected to 'pseudonym'?

Great idea!

In the meantime, I put my encrypted return address in my public key and put
them both on the existing servers. I put each line of the return address
into an 'id' of my key, so that with a little editing the return address
can be reassembled. Unfortunately, this will not work in the future,
because new revisions of PGP will not guarantee that the order of id's is
well defined.  Even then, I could number the id's. 

If PGP was totally bulletproof, it could handle carriage returns within a
single id, or at least an id long enough to contain a return address with
the carriage returns replaced with markers. PGP 2.2 bombs if you paste too
long a sting into an id field.

Eternal Optimist
7/20/93

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