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Anonymity: Remailers: WWW Interfaces

A convenient, but not very secure, way to send anonymous messages is with a form in an HTML document. The following sites all offer you to send mail to someone anonymously, often even with the ability to choose the remailers to use.

This is not as secure as composing the message off-line. Your message and the final recipient are sent unencrypted to the WWW server used, so anyone listening in on your connection to this server knows who you are mailing.

List of known WWW remailer interfaces

[=] Java-based WWW remailer
[=] WWW Remailer at RePlAy (using SSL)
[=] WWW Remailer at RePlAy
[=] MyEmail.NET
[+] Anonymity: Remailers: Cypherpunk remailers
Cypherpunk remailers (sometimes referred to as "Type I") simply take your message, strip off all headers and send it to the intended recipient. This means that no one will be able to reply in e-mail to your message, but it gives you an almost intraceable way of sending messages.
[+] Anonymity: Remailers: Mixmaster remailers
Mixmaster remailers, also known as "Type II" remailers, were designed to be even more secure than cypherpunk remailers. Most of the attacks that work against Type I remailers are useless against Mixmaster remailers. It requires a special client to compose messages.
[+] Security: Encryption: Pretty Good Privacy
PGP is a file encryption program which is generally considered unbreakable. It is used extensively on the Internet, available for almost every platform and is required for anonymous remailers. It can also create digital signatures, which makes it easy to detect forgeries.

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Last modified: 22 Mar 1997
Author: Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet
Comments: galactus@stack.nl
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