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1993-08-09 - Re: ANON: Re: how does it work

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 93 11:46:37 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: ANON: Re: how does it work
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Phil Karn says:
> You don't use the system telnet, you write your own socket application.
> No UNIX systems I know log at this level, but it is certainly possible.
> Or someone could record packets off the local Ethernet. There's not much
> you can do about this.
> 
> You could hack up a copy of sendmail, but SMTP is so trivial that you
> could do it yourself, especially since the functionality you need
> is so limited.

Indeed, writing an SMTP agent in Perl is quite trivial -- I've done
it.

Perry

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