From: Raph Levien <raph@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 15:22:02 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: New Remailer (hidden)
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Bill Stewart wrote:
> 
> Cool.  I've got a test message going now.
> Does your remailer accept PGP-encrypted email?
> It's really critical for high-security applications,
> at least for first remailer hops, but your key's not on
> the MIT keyserver.

   At present, middleman accepts only Mixmaster format messages.
Obviously, if it also supported type-1 messages, it would be important
to accept PGP encrypted messages as well.

> BTW, how do we know you're not a plant?  :-)
> Aside from having an interesting nym,
> you've probably got the first remailer that
> makes it difficult to tell who's running it.
> You could be Sameer, or you could be Louis Freeh,
> but we don't know.  At least folks like Xenon were
> known to be real people....

   I am able to vouch for the fact that middleman is not a plant.

> Even if you _are_ a plant, of course, we can still use
> your system, but I'd want to do encrypted email through
> other remailers on one end or the other.

   Always a good idea.

Raph