From: Raph Levien <raph@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 06:52:57 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: List of reliable remailers
Message-ID: <199611181450.GAA03113@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu>
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   I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed
information about remailer features and reliability.

   To use it, just finger remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu

   There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of
interesting links to remailer-related resources, at:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html

   This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP
encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see:
http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html

   For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger
pgpkeys@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu

This is the current info:

                                 REMAILER LIST

   This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first
   part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration
   options and special features for each of the remailers. The second
   part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each
   remailer. You can also get this list by fingering
   remailer-list@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu.

$remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail@miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special";
$remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster@remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?";
$remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer@replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek";
$remailer{'alpha'} = '<alias@alpha.c2.org> alpha pgp';
$remailer{'nymrod'} = '<nymrod@nym.jpunix.com> alpha pgp';
$remailer{"lead"} = "<mix@zifi.genetics.utah.edu> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer@remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack@holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer@dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer@cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{'nym'} = '<config@nym.alias.net> newnym pgp';
$remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer@huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix@squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek";
$remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman@jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?";
$remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias@alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp';
$remailer{"dustbin"} = "<dustman@athensnet.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek mix reord middle ?";
$remailer{'weasel'} = '<config@weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp';
$remailer{"death"} = "<x@deathsdoor.com> cpunk pgp hash latent post";
$remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman@cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?";
catalyst@netcom.com is _not_ a remailer.
lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer.
usura@replay.com is _not_ a remailer.
remailer@crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer.

nym.alias.net is back up.

There is no remailer at relay.com.

Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator:
(cyber mix)
(weasel squirrel)

The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you
can use the nym or weasel (newnym style) nymservers.

The cyber nymserver is quite reliable for outgoing mail (which is
what's measured here), but is exhibiting serious reliability problems
for incoming mail.

403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the
Berkeley WWW server. This seems to be fixed now.

The penet remailer is closed.

Last update: Mon 18 Nov 96 6:48:35 PST
remailer  email address                        history  latency  uptime
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
jam      remailer@cypherpunks.ca          * **********    14:29  99.94%
balls    remailer@huge.cajones.com        - **********     5:32  99.81%
replay   remailer@replay.com              - **++******     9:22  99.69%
haystack haystack@holy.cow.net            - ***#***--#    24:20  99.57%
cyber    alias@alias.cyberpass.net        - +**+  ++**    37:22  99.46%
weasel   config@weasel.owl.de                  ++-++-   2:11:49  99.16%
middle   middleman@jpunix.com             - -.- * +--   1:53:39  98.71%
lead     mix@zifi.genetics.utah.edu         +++++++++*    35:42  98.50%
squirrel mix@squirrel.owl.de              - ++--+-++    2:19:11  98.29%
reno     middleman@cyberpass.net                 +*--   1:16:19  98.24%
lucifer  lucifer@dhp.com                  - + ++++++++    42:33  98.05%
mix      mixmaster@remail.obscura.com     - -+..+++++-  2:00:45  96.31%
nym      config@nym.alias.net                 #*  *#*#      :42  95.87%
extropia remail@miron.vip.best.com        .---------    9:21:36  92.07%
dustbin  dustman@athensnet.com            -  -++--      3:39:00  69.30%
exon     remailer@remailer.nl.com                   ##  7:06:33  41.67%

   History key
     * # response in less than 5 minutes.
     * * response in less than 1 hour.
     * + response in less than 4 hours.
     * - response in less than 24 hours.
     * . response in more than 1 day.
     * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days).

   cpunk
          A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To:
          field.
          
   eric
          A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead.
          
   penet
          The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses
          X-Anon-To: in the header.
          
   pgp
          Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the
          keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email
          address, should be used as the encryption key ID.
          
   hash
          Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of
          outgoing messages.
          
   ksub
          Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode.
          
   nsub
          Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode.
          
   latent
          Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option.
          
   cut
          Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option.
          
   post
          Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header.
          
   ek
          Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header.
          
   special
          Accepts only pgp encrypted messages.
          
   mix
          Can accept messages in Mixmaster format.
          
   reord
          Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note:
          I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and
          haven't verified the reord info myself.

   mon
          Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email.
          
   filter
          Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If
          not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined
          for public forums are subject to filtering.
          

Raph Levien