From: lcottrell@popmail.ucsd.edu (Lance Cottrell)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 18:46:12 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Remailer Specs
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>In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950128194321.1158A-100000@unix2.netaxs.com>
>grendel@netaxs.com (Michael Handler) writes:
>>On Sat, 28 Jan 1995, Rhys Kyraden wrote:
>>
>>>         Since I have begun the project of writing the Remailer for the Mac,
>>> I suddenly realized that I do not know exactly what is expected of it, and
>>> therefore would like some pointers to the specs of a remailer (I have seen
>>> references to padding and splitting but do not know what this is nor how to
>>> implement it.)
>>
>>       I've started work on a formal remailer standards document that
>>describes just how a Cypherpunk Type I remailer should process messages,
>>with full header descriptions, etc. After I've checked it against the
>>behaviors of all the various Cypherpunk remailer packages (Ghio vs Eric
>>Hollander vs Sameer vs Mixmaster in compatibility mode vs whatever else),
>>I'll post it here for comments.
>
>Cypherpunk Type I?  Ok, what are the other types?  Should there be a
>type specification like there is for RAID, or the Body Armor Threat
>levels?
>
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He spicifies type 1 to differentiate it from what I have been calling type
2,the message format used by mixmaster remailers.

Essay on Mixmaster available on my WWW page.

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