Cypherpunk anonymous remailer
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A cypherpunk anonymous remailer is an anonymous remailer that takes messages encrypted with PGP or GPG, or in some cases in plain text, and forwards it removing any identity information from the header. The message is preceded with the following pseudoheader (called "pseudoheader" because it is after the RFC 822 headers):
- ::
- Request-Remailing-To: final@destination.net
then encrypted to the remailer's key, and the following pseudoheader is prepended to the result:
- Encrypted: PGP
Some Cypherpunk remailers are also Mixmaster anonymous remailers and can split long Cypherpunk messages into Mixmaster packets and send them to the next remailer, if it also understands Mixmaster.
See also
- Anonymous remailer
- Pseudonymous remailer
- Anonymous_P2P
- Tor (Anonymous network)
- data privacy
- identity theft
- penet remailer
- anonymity
- traffic analysis
- anonymous publication
- Onion Routing
External links
- a remailer FAQ (http://www.andrebacard.com/remail.html)
- Remailer Vulnerabilities (http://www.skuz.net/potatoware/PSKB-035.html)
- Mixmaster & Remailer Attacks (http://www.obscura.com/~loki/remailer/remailer-essay.html)
Further reading
- Email Security, Bruce Schneier (ISBN 047105318X)
- Computer Privacy Handbook, Andre Bacard (ISBN 1566091713)