Definitions
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- noun a
computerised email service that passes on thetext of emails without identifying information, as a means of providinganonymous email.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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Experimental remailer with encryption to server. ` finger 'site address for information.
The Sphinx of Russia Kelly, Aileen 1998
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The second type of remailer accepts encrypted remailing headers.
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To send the above message with an encrypted header, use PGP to encrypt the entire message shown above to the desired remailer.
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The syntax for sending mail through this remailer is different from the cypherpunk remailers.
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You then add the remailing header and encrypt it again using the key for the remailer that you are using.
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Yes, the most commonly used remailer on the Internet is in Finland.
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Anybody using the remailer is assigned an anonymous id of the form "an?????" where "?????" is filled in with a number representing that user.
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You can get the list by fingering remailer-list@kiwi. cs.berkeley.edu.
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