Anonymous Servers - nym config question

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nym config question

Nomen Nescio

2005-11-29, 5:50 pm

I've got a nym working and confirmed and outputting to
alt.anonymous.messages.

If I send a new config message (with "config?" and some other
commands, and possibly changing the reply block) for the same nym,
will it stop working until I confirm it again?

In general, how hard is it to break a working nym?

panta-admin

2005-11-29, 5:50 pm

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Hi !

>I've got a nym working and confirmed and outputting to
>alt.anonymous.messages.

Well done !

>If I send a new config message (with "config?" and some other
>commands, and possibly changing the reply block) for the same nym,
>will it stop working until I confirm it again?

No, the old reply blocks will remain active until you have confirmed the
new ones.

>In general, how hard is it to break a working nym?

Nyms mostly break because the reply-block chain breaks.
To avoid that use several different chains.

Cheers,
panta-admin

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2005-11-29, 5:50 pm

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
>I've got a nym working and confirmed and outputting to
>alt.anonymous.messages.
>
>If I send a new config message (with "config?" and some other
>commands, and possibly changing the reply block) for the same nym,
>will it stop working until I confirm it again?
>

Normally you have to confirm any changes to the nym config just like
activating it. The nym will continue to function as normal during that
period. It will continue to use your old reply blocks until you have
confirmed the change and you get a message back that it is working.

>In general, how hard is it to break a working nym?

Never broke one in over 10 years and I have about 10 at present.

Nomen Nescio

2005-11-30, 7:46 am

panta-admin <anonymous@panta-rhei.dyndns.org> wrote:

>
> Well done !

Thanks! It took a few tries.

If my reply-block goes to alt.anonymous.messages, is there any need
(for privacy) to go through a remailer chain, or should the nymserver
just send mail for the nym straight to the mail2news?

>
> No, the old reply blocks will remain active until you have confirmed the
> new ones.
>
>
> Nyms mostly break because the reply-block chain breaks.
> To avoid that use several different chains.

Thanks for the reassurance.

Anonymous

2005-11-30, 5:48 pm

Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:

> If my reply-block goes to alt.anonymous.messages, is there any need
> (for privacy) to go through a remailer chain, or should the nymserver
> just send mail for the nym straight to the mail2news?

It's best for your privacy to have only reply-blocks going to aam. For more
reliability, it might be advisable to use two or more reply-blocks.

I usually use three reply-blocks. One sends the symmetric encrypted and
esubbed mail to two or three mail2news gateways. The other two Remix-To: it
to remailers that don't rely on mail2news.

dingo, frell, thrasher and maybe more Anon-Post-To: directly to usenet.
There is no definite guide. You have to run tests and look at the Path:
headers.

An example:

Reply-Block:
::
Anon-To: mail2news@this,mail2news@that
Inflate: 1r
Encrypt-Key: test
Encrypt-Subject: test

##
Newsgroups: alt.anonymous.messages
Subject: test

**
Reply-Block:
::
Anon-To: another@remailer
Inflate: 1r
Encrypt-Key: test1
Remix-To: remailer

::
Encrypted: PGP

::
Anon-Post-To: alt.anonymous.messages
Encrypt-Key: test2
Encrypt-Subject: test2

##
Subject: test2

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Reply-Block:
as above

HTH