Anonymous Remailers - Disappearing Cryptography - page 188

through the remailer was simple. You created the letter as you would
any other, but you addressed it to [e-mail] .Atthetopof
the letter, you added two fields, X-Anon-Password: and X-Anon-To: .
The first held a password that you used to control your anonymous
identity. The second gave the address to which the message would
go. Here's a short sample:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 09:07:07 -0500
To: [e-mail]
From: [e-mail] (Peter Wayner)
Subject: Echo Homo
X-Anon-Password: swordfish
X-Anon-To: [e-mail]
Le nom de plume de la rose est <<Pink Flamingo.>>
When the message arrives in Finland, the remailer strips off
the header and assigns an anonymous ID to my address
[e-mail] . The real name and the anonymous name are
placed in a table and bound with a password. You don't need to use
a password, but this adds security. Anyone with a small amount of
technical expertise can fake mail so that it arrives looking like it came
from someone else. The password prevented anyone from captur-
ing your secret identity. If they did't know your password, then they
could't assume your identity.
The password was also necessary for dissolving your identity. If
you wanted to remove your name and anonymous identity from the
system, then you needed to know the password. This remailer placed
a waiting period on cancellation because it did't want people to come
in, send something anonymously, and then escape the flames. If you
send something, then you should feel the heat, was the philosophy-
a philosophy that eventually wore out the welcome.
If youwanted to post anonymously to a newsgroup, you could put
the newsgroup's name in the X-Anon-To: field like this:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 09:07:07 -0500
To: [e-mail]
From: [e-mail] (Peter Wayner)
Subject: Stupidity
X-Anon-Password: swordfish
X-Anon-To: alt.flames