1996-01-04 - Re: DOS/Windows remailer chaining

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From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <199601040811.AAA27446@ix12.ix.netcom.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-01-04 08:26:36 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 16:26:36 +0800

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From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 16:26:36 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: DOS/Windows remailer chaining
Message-ID: <199601040811.AAA27446@ix12.ix.netcom.com>
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At 09:27 PM 1/2/96 +0100, nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) wrote:
>Cypherpunks write code. With that phrase and the wave of attempts to 
>censor the 'Net, I've embarked on a quest to make remailers easier to use.
>
>Has anyone written an easy to use Windows or DOS application that will let
>someone chain a message through several remailers, perhaps with support
>for the mailer at alpha.c2.org? 

Yup.  Private Idaho, www.eskimo.com/~joelm/ does just that,
along with calling PGP to do things you commonly want done.


>Would the writer of such a program, if in the US fall under the provisions
>in ITAR? Obviously, calls to the PGP program would have to be made. I
>recall reading that such hooks do fall under the ITAR. If this is true, so
>much for a more user friendly version of chain for the masses. 

Depends on whether it's a "component" of an encryption system or not.
But if you're not doing PGP, no problem at all (except of course that
_real_ remailers only talk encrypted....)
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