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Remailers -- a Higher Level of Anonymity
In all previous attempts to email anonymously, we still had something (an email address, a server name,...) if not in the From: field then at least somewhere in the header that could be traced back to us. At least our Internet service provider, at least the provider of our free Web-based email account knew who and were we are (do they?). They could be forced (by law) to tell our proper names.What Remailers Do
Remailers don't do much. But what they do is effective. Remailers forward any message to any recipient specified. In doing so, and this is what counts, they remove all information that could lead to the original sender. Practically, in its purest and simplest incarnation, that means a remailer will remove all header lines of the message. Without any header fields it proves extremely difficult to follow an email's path. If two or more anonymous remailers are put in a chain, nobody can reveal your true name or whereabouts, simply because they have no idea.
Cypherpunk remailers are more simple and easier to use, Mixmaster remailers are more involved, more secure, but more difficult to use. We will begin our tour of using remailers with the most simple yet most often used form: sending an anonymous email via a Cypherpunk remailer.
Instructions on how to use the Xandra Remailer - Quick and Easy
