From: johan@eniac.campus.luth.se (Johan Sandberg)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 16:58:59 +0800
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Subject: Re: Cypherpunk remailer
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>At 07:24 PM 2/29/96 +0100, you wrote:

>>>The mixmaster remailers require special client software on your machine.
>>
>>What special software? What will the client do?

>It's "The Mixmaster Client Software".  Mixmaster is a relatively complex
>system that breaks up the message into encrypted pieces that get sent
>separately to a destination mixmaster, which decrypts and reassembles the
>pieces and sends the message on to the final destination.  It's more secure,
>partly because all the transmissions are encyrpted, and partly because it's
>much harder to do traffic analysis on a network of indentical-sized chunks
>floating around than on messages with distinct sizes that you can watch.

>I think the client only runs on Unix, or at least doesn't run on DOS,
>though there's some porting work being done, and you can probably find
>it on one of the Netherlands remailer sites.

Ok.. that explains it!
But If I really need to be that sure of not being tracked down I could use the
Mixmaster on my unix shell account!