Definitions

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  • noun a computerised email service that passes on the text of emails without identifying information, as a means of providing anonymous email.

Etymologies

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remail +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Johan HelsingiusCRUSADEROperator of penet, the notorious Finland-based "anonymous remailer" that allows people to send mail and post messages with no return addresses.

    The Net 50 2008

  • He had arranged for several highly secure e-mail accounts, and this one went first to a network server in Toronto, where it then bounced to a “remailer” somewhere in Denmark.

    The Mesa Conspiracy David Kent 2005

  • Experimental remailer with encryption to server. ` finger 'site address for information.

    The Sphinx of Russia Kelly, Aileen 1998

  • The second type of remailer accepts encrypted remailing headers.

    FAQ: Alt.Security.PGP (Part III) 1995

  • To send the above message with an encrypted header, use PGP to encrypt the entire message shown above to the desired remailer.

    FAQ: Alt.Security.PGP (Part III) 1995

  • The syntax for sending mail through this remailer is different from the cypherpunk remailers.

    FAQ: Alt.Security.PGP (Part III) 1995

  • You then add the remailing header and encrypt it again using the key for the remailer that you are using.

    FAQ: Alt.Security.PGP (Part III) 1995

  • Yes, the most commonly used remailer on the Internet is in Finland.

    FAQ: Alt.Security.PGP (Part III) 1995

  • Anybody using the remailer is assigned an anonymous id of the form "an?????" where "?????" is filled in with a number representing that user.

    FAQ: Alt.Security.PGP (Part III) 1995

  • You can get the list by fingering remailer-list@kiwi. cs.berkeley.edu.

    FAQ: Alt.Security.PGP (Part III) 1995

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