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Maybe that will work for privacy which we can also work with here, but doesn't solve the anonymity problem. This reminds me... Anonymous remailers have been ar
by eksith 13y ago
Maybe that will work for privacy which we can also work with here, but doesn't solve the anonymity problem.
This reminds me... Anonymous remailers have been around for quite a while. The idea being, you get your mail through a forwarding service that wraps the package to the final destination (or another anonymous forwarder) so the sender doesn't know where the final destination is actually.
I don't know of something similar can be implemented with email because you still need headers to be visible. Unless email too can be wrapped in multiple layers of encryption, headers and all, that each subsequent relay must decrypt before finding the destination.
- vidarh 13y ago> I don't know of something similar can be implemented with email because you still need headers to be visible. Anon.penet.fi - the first well known anonymising e-mail remailer - is 20 years this year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer - it's not only possible, it's trivially easy as you can rewrite the headers as you please. For just anonymity from someone without ability to eavesdrop you don't need much - just strip out the headers from the sender, and replace the sender and recipient addresses. For protection against eavesdropping you need at a minimum encryption between sender and the relay, and the relay and the recipient (which could be another relay). EDIT: against a dedicated opponent you want more, including end to end encryption as well, of course. There are lots of e-mail remailer designs around (most substantially more advanced than the Penet remailer)
- facorreia 13y agoAnonymity is forbidden by the Brazilian Constitution.