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First Impressions of PyNonymous
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| George Orwell 2006-01-29, 8:50 pm |
| Excellent!
I'm running it using linux and Pan, and it is as smooth as silk. I'll
comment more later, but, for now, here's a wish list:
Put in a few command prompts:
>Email Address?
If you just press the enter key, no 'from' header is written, and
your message gets the default of the exit remailer; otherwise it
gets whatever email address you entered.
>Chain
If you just press the enter key, you get whatever chain of remailers
the script chooses; otherwise, you get whatever you entered, such
as *,*,* or *,*,thrasher.
If you specified an 'Email Address?', the script will make sure that
the chain ends in a remailer that allows a 'from' header.
This will have to be kept uptodate by the user, unless some kind of
wget + parsing function is added to get the information from banana
or some other stats keeper.
>Copies
How many copies of the message. If you just press the enter key, the
script will choose a number of copies to match the number of remailers
in the chain.
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| George Orwell 2006-01-30, 2:46 am |
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George Orwell wrote:
> Excellent!
Thanks. Appreciate it. I take it you had no trouble figuring out how to
test, then enable sending? IOW, my rambling comments aren't too hard to
understand?
> I'm running it using linux and Pan, and it is as smooth as silk. I'll
> comment more later, but, for now, here's a wish list:
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> Put in a few command prompts:
First of all, this sort of goes against what I was shooting for. Something
that you could set, then forget. Ideally I was trying to produce something
that would run faithfully as a cron job (with built in dummy generation
that matches your "profiile") behind the scenes, and hopefully more or
less bullet proof. Yeah right. ;)
I understand the desire for on the fly configuration though.
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> If you just press the enter key, no 'from' header is written, and your
> message gets the default of the exit remailer; otherwise it gets whatever
> email address you entered.
Eventually I plan to move all the configuration outside the script.
Sooner than I thought I guess, according to the feedback. ;)
If I did this, it would be no trouble at all to use multiple
configuration files with different profiles and pick them at the command
line with a switch. It would also be possible to have different profiles
in one configuration file separated with something like [PROFILE] too, and
use some sort of "flag" somewhere in the message body or headers that
picked your profile accordingly. Maybe a special X-PyNoner-Profile header
that could be handled by your client's posting profiles itself.
Which sounds more edible?
I'm really trying to stay as far away from user interaction as possible.
Like I said, I'm trying to generate something that does its thing
automatically. I'm also still torn on the whole "too much control" issue,
but I personally lean towards the "go ahead and shoot yourself in the foot
if you want to" side, so I'll try to implement whatever control users want.
FWIW, I slapped a bit of code in to a special copy that automatically PGP
clear signs messages just to test it. ;-)
I'm also working on incorporating a HashCash generator and automatic
token management for people who want to use those features.
> If you just press the enter key, you get whatever chain of remailers the
> script chooses; otherwise, you get whatever you entered, such as *,*,* or
> *,*,thrasher.
Yeah, I realize the chains need to be more configurable. They're limited
to lengths of 4 right now unless you edit the script itself. My plan was
to again make this an automatic thing, but random over a configurable
range like the number of copies is. One of the very first things on
my ToDo list AAMOF. Sound good?
> If you specified an 'Email Address?', the script will make sure that the
> chain ends in a remailer that allows a 'from' header.
Already in the works.  You can "get around" from headers by adding
'From' to the allowedHeaders list, and changing preferred_exits to
['thrasher', 'frell']. The only two that currently allow it, correct? That
way whatever you have configure in your client's posting profile would
pass through. Easy to muck it up and use the wrong profile though I
suppose, sp maybe it's better handled by the script itself.
Thoughts?
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> This will have to be kept uptodate by the user, unless some kind of wget +
> parsing function is added to get the information from banana or some other
> stats keeper.
That's really not too much of a problem at all, but we're starting again
to get outside what I wanted to accomplish at the moment. OTOH, I had at
one time considered using the Noreply Meta Stats pages to build lists of
broken chains, capabilities, etc., and not let Mix have any control over
that at all so you never know. ;-)
Thanks for the suggestions. I just learned this afternoon that a former
boss and still current friend of mine died suddenly of a heart attack at
age 52.  I have some additional things to keep me busy for a few days,
so please don't think I've abandoned this project if requests aren't met
immediately. Give me about a week unless there's something horribly wrong.
Thanks.
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| Borked Pseudo Mailed 2006-01-30, 5:47 pm |
| On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:18:09 +0100, George Orwell wrote:
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> George Orwell wrote:
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> Thanks. Appreciate it. I take it you had no trouble figuring out how to
> test, then enable sending? IOW, my rambling comments aren't too hard to
> understand?
They are fine. I almost prefer that you leave them in to guide people who
want to customize the script.
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> First of all, this sort of goes against what I was shooting for. Something
> that you could set, then forget. Ideally I was trying to produce something
> that would run faithfully as a cron job (with built in dummy generation
> that matches your "profiile") behind the scenes, and hopefully more or
> less bullet proof. Yeah right. ;)
>
> I understand the desire for on the fly configuration though.
In thinking about how like to use remailers, just running PyNonymous is
the overwhelming way I would like to use it - just send the message and be
assured it will be anonymous.
A smaller percentage of the time I prefer to use only 2 or 3 remailers to
get the message delivered faster.
And sometimes I want to use a 'from' header.
To avoid shooting myself in the foot, I want to have to do a little work
to change the way it creates the chain.
Would it be possible/useful to run it with a parameter to get the
different kind of chains:
PyNonymous 3 gets a chain of 3 remailers with 3? copies
PyNonymous 5 f gets a chain of 5 remailers and a prompt to enter a 'from'
name/address. And an exit remailer that honors the 'from' header will be
chosen.
That way, you have to make a conscious effort to get away from the default
behaviour.
I'll try to continue to add to what will probably be a lot of feedback.
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