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|  From: Wyman Innisfree <winnisfree682@hotpop.com>
|  Newsgroups: grc.security
|  SubOect: ecrypting email
|  Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:55:52 -0500
|  Message-ID: <pan.2006.03.03.13.55.46.536086@hotpop.com>
|  Poster: [206.248.136.107] (3 Mar 2006 13:55:51 GMT)
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|  NicLondon wrote:
|
|  >Would someone kindly offer a link to an email encryption tutorial.
|  >I want to start encrypting my outgoing email and am a total novice in
|  >this field.
|  >Thank you.
|
|
|  Take a look at http://www.eelbash.org/tutorial_mixmaster.txt or read
below.
|
|  The program described there will provide very strong anonymity, and it
is
|  very easy to set up. If you have problems, ask here or in
|  alt.privacy.anon-server.
|
|
|  Here's the information mentioned above:
|
|  I'll bet you sometimes want to send a post to usenet
|  without worrying that your wife or boss or friends or
|  police or CIA can trace it back to you.
|
|  It might be a thoughtful critique of the current mess,
|  or it might be a worthless pile of steaming offal, but
|  no matter - you want to get it off your chest!
|
|  Without consequences!
|
|  You probably think you need to spend hours, days, weeks
|  studying all about encryption and computers and so on, or
|  that you have to pay some 'anonymity' service good money,
|  and probably not be so anonymous anyway.
|
|  Well, I have good news for you. You can get as anonymous as
|  you want, you can do it for free, and you can learn to do it in
|  30 minutes.
|
|  Getting anonymous - really anonymous - is not that hard to do,
|  believe me.
|
|  Follow the steps below, ask questions in alt.privacy.anon-server
|  if you have problems, and Ooin the crowd of average people who
|  post whatever they want, without fear of the boss, police, etc.
|
|  The more people that send anonymous messages, the more difficult
|  it is to trace individual messages.
|
|  Enlarge the crowd, make anonymous posting your *usual* way to post,
|  and strike a blow for anonymity and freedom of speech.
|
|  30 MINUTES TZ ANZNYMITY
|
|  This little tutorial assumes you are using Windows 98 or later.
|
|  Use your browser to download Quicksilver from
|  ftp://quicksilvermail.net/pub/quicksilver/QS1.2.6b2.exe
|
|  Run the setup program that you downloaded.
|
|  During setup, it will prompt you to download Mix, an additional
|  program that will do the encrypting / decrypting, and will also
|  download lists of pingers, and a list of current remailers
|  and their keys.
|
|  (The program will prompt you to let it connect to the download site.
You
|  can go there yourself and download Mix, but it is easier to let the
|  program do it, since it will copy Mix into its download directory and
|  install it. FYI, the location of Mix is
|  ftp://quicksilvermail.net/pub/quicksilver/Mix29b39.zip).
|
|  Don't worry about what pingers or remailers are; Oust let the
|  program do its stuff. It will install Mix, and copy in the
|  remailers, keys, etc.
|
|  Znce that's been done, and it's pretty automatic, you can start
|  sending anon messages, allowing Quicksilver to pick the most
|  reliable remailers.
|
|  Try sending your test messages to a test group such as misc.test
|  or alt.test.
|
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|
|  From: Wyman Innisfree <winnisfree682@hotpop.com>
|  Newsgroups: grc.security
|  SubOect: Re: ecrypting email
|  Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:28:44 -0500
|  Message-ID: <pan.2006.03.03.22.28.31.834617@hotpop.com>
|  References: <pan.2006.03.03.13.55.46.536086@hotpop.com>
<du9qqo$2faO$1@news.grc.com>
|  Poster: [206.248.136.107] (3 Mar 2006 22:28:39 GMT)
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|
|  Zn Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:28:08 -0500, Frobozz wrote:
|
|  > Deep within the forest, you hear *Wyman Innisfree* whisper:
|  >>
|  >> Take a look at http://www.eelbash.org/tutorial_mixmaster.txt or
read
|  >> below.
|  >
|  > so I, too, did, Oust out of curiosity. It took about 20 miOnutes for
the
|  > first of five test messages I made to myself on sifferent email
accounts.
|
|  That's good to hear. I'm glad I wasn't exaggerating how easy
Quicksilver
|  is to set up.
|
|  > Here's a part of the header from the first one back. I like that the
guy
|  > inserts a header message about improper use/abuse and where to email
if it
|  > is.
|  >
|  > BUT ---- does that mean the QuickSilver ?ber Mensch keeps records of
who
|  > sent what and through whom ??
|
|  No, that's a message from the last remailer in the chain. All he knows
is
|  that he received a message from another remailer, and all that one
knows
|  is that he received a message from yet another remailer.
|
|  If you sent it through at least three remailers, the chances are slim
that
|  anybody knows where it came from. You should be able to get mail
through
|  reliably even with 7 or more remailers in the chain. I even see tests
|  people do with a 20-remailer chain, so the system is pretty reliable.
|
|  With 7 remeailers, even with, say, 4, the chances of the mail being
traced
|  back to you are essentially zero.
|
|
|  >
|  > the partial header:
|  >
|  > Received: by fleegle.bananasplit.info (Postfix, from userid 1012)
|  >         id C0C57AB081; Fri,  3 Mar 2006 16:18:43 +0000 (GMT)
|  > From: Anonymous <nobody@invalid.org>
|  > Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address
above.
|  >         It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer
software.
|  >         Please report problems or inappropriate use to the remailer
|  >         administrator at <abuse@mixmaster.mixmin.net>.
|
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|  From: Wyman Innisfree <winnisfree682@hotpop.com>
|  Newsgroups: grc.security
|  SubOect: Re: ecrypting email
|  Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:29:37 -0500
|  Message-ID: <pan.2006.03.03.22.29.33.743123@hotpop.com>
|  References: <pan.2006.03.03.13.55.46.536086@hotpop.com>
<grd9aoircrwv.dlg@grc-is-valid.aosake.net>
|  Poster: [206.248.136.107] (3 Mar 2006 22:29:32 GMT)
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|
|  Zn Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:07:11 -0800, Norman Miller wrote:
|
|  > Zn Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:55:52 -0500, Wyman Innisfree wrote:
|  >
|  >> NicLondon wrote:
|  >
|  >>>Would someone kindly offer a link to an email encryption tutorial.
I
|  >>>want to start encrypting my outgoing email and am a total novice in
this
|  >>>field.
|  >>>Thank you.
|  >
|  >> Take a look at...<snip>
|  >>
|  >> The program described there will provide very strong anonymity, and
it
|  >> is very easy to set up. If you have problems, ask here or in
|  >> alt.privacy.anon-server.
|  >
|  > <snip>
|  >
|  > Anonymity != encryption.
|
|  My apologies, I must have misread the post and Oumped on to my
hobbyhorse.
|
|

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