From: ghio@utopia.hacktic.nl (Matthew Ghio)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 08:30:15 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: encrypt-key remailers
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Jennifer Mansfield-Jones (cardtris@umich.edu) wrote:

>  ::
>  Encrypt-Key: apasswd
>  Request-Remailing-To: cardtris@umich.edu
>  Subject: reply-block-test
>  
>  **
...

>  
> Trying the above, I find that it does *sort of* work as a reply
> block.  If I append sample text and send everything to
> remailer@flame.alias.net, I get a reply back that looks like, for
> instance: 
>
> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 19:22:13 +0100
> From: Anonymous <nobody@flame.alias.net>
> To: cardtris@umich.edu
> Subject: reply-block-test
>
> **
>
>
> The appended text, which I expected to come back conventionally
> encrypted with 'apasswd', has just vanished into the void.  
> Obviously I'm missing something... probably something that seemed 
> painfully obvious to the writer of the remailer help file.  If I 
> omit the encryption key and '**', I can get reply blocks to work fine,
> even chained through multiple remailers.  Suggestions?

This is a configuration problem at the remailer, most likely a missing 
randseed.bin file.