Sending a Cypherpunk Message

Generally you can get a Cypherpunk remailer's public key by sending an email message with the subject "remailer-key" to the server you wish to use.

Compose the message in your favorite text editor, using the following template:

::

Anon-To: 



Subject: 

Use PGP

Pretty Good Privacy

Pretty Good Privacy is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security...

 or GPG

GNU Privacy Guard

GNU Privacy Guard is a GPL Licensed alternative to the PGP suite of cryptographic software. GnuPG is compliant with RFC 4880, which is the current IETF standards track specification of OpenPGP...

 to encrypt the message that you just composed.

Prepare an email to send to the Cypherpunk remailer using the following template:

Encrypted: PGP



-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----



-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

Then send it.

See also

• Anonymity
  Anonymity
  Anonymity is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.There are many reasons why a...
  
  
  • Anonymous P2P
    Anonymous P2P
    An anonymous P2P communication system is a peer-to-peer distributed application in which the nodes or participants are anonymous or pseudonymous...
    
    
  • Anonymous remailer
    Anonymous remailer
    An anonymous remailer is a server computer which receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next, and which forwards them without revealing where they originally came from...
    
    
    • Mixmaster anonymous remailer
      Mixmaster anonymous remailer
      Mixmaster is a Type II anonymous remailer which sends messages in fixed-size packets and reorders them, preventing anyone watching the messages go in and out of remailers from tracing them. Mixmaster was originally written by Lance Cottrell, and was maintained by Len Sassaman Peter Palfrader is the...
      
       (Type II)
    • Mixminion
      Mixminion
      Mixminion is the standard implementation of the Type III anonymous remailer protocol. Mixminion can send and receive anonymous e-mail.Mixminion uses a mix network architecture to provide strong anonymity, and prevent eavesdroppers and other attackers from linking senders and recipients...
      
       (Type III)
  • Onion routing
    Onion routing
    Onion routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a computer network. Messages are repeatedly encrypted and then sent through several network nodes called onion routers. Like someone unpeeling an onion, each onion router removes a layer of encryption to uncover routing instructions, and...
    
    
    • Tor (anonymity network)
      Tor (anonymity network)
      Tor is a system intended to enable online anonymity. Tor client software routes Internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers in order to conceal a user's location or usage from someone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis...
      
      
  • Pseudonymous remailer
    Pseudonymous remailer
    A pseudonymous remailer or nym server, as opposed to an anonymous remailer, is an Internet software program designed to allow people to write pseudonymous messages on Usenet newsgroups and send pseudonymous email. Unlike purely anonymous remailers, it assigns its users a user name, and it keeps a...
    
     (a.k.a. nym servers)
    • Penet remailer
      Penet remailer
      The Penet remailer was a pseudonymous remailer operated by Johan "Julf" Helsingius of Finland from 1993 to 1996. Its initial creation stemmed from an argument in a Finnish newsgroup over whether people should be required to tie their real name to their online communications...
      
      
• Data privacy
  Data privacy
  Information privacy, or data privacy is the relationship between collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, and the legal and political issues surrounding them....
  
  
• Traffic analysis
  Traffic analysis
  Traffic analysis is the process of intercepting and examining messages in order to deduce information from patterns in communication. It can be performed even when the messages are encrypted and cannot be decrypted. In general, the greater the number of messages observed, or even intercepted and...
  
  

Howtos and Examples

• About.com: Send Email Anonymously — Chaining Remailers with PGP
• Anonymous.to: Cypherpunk Tutorial
• Feraga.com: Howto use a Type I Anonymous Remailer (link not active 12 May 2010)

Further reading

• Email Security, Bruce Schneier
  Bruce Schneier
  Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security specialist, and writer. He is the author of several books on general security topics, computer security and cryptography, and is the founder and chief technology officer of BT Managed Security Solutions, formerly Counterpane Internet...
  
  (ISBN 0-471-05318-X)
• Computer Privacy Handbook, Andre Bacard (ISBN 1-56609-171-3)