10-25-06 06:23 PM
Thomas J. Boschloo <nospam@hccnet.nl> wrote:
: There used to be a remailer usura/@/xs4all.nl. I wonder if you or
: anybody else knows what was used for an exit? Would smtp.xs4all.nl get
: the admins of XS4ALL breathing in the neck of the remop? What if the
: remailer was middleman?
That's a long time ago autum 1994 orso.
I bought my first computer in 1988 and the first software I bought
was PC Tools. The manual had this intreguing notice that stated
that only US people would get the 128 bits DES encryption europeans
and others were limited to 56 bits encryption.
I felt cheated, they gave me a lesser product. So I placed an ad
in PC Magazine (http://www.pcmagazine.nl/) and asked for the 128 bits
version. One evening the phone rang, 'Does your father work for the
gouvernment' a male asked. 'No' I replied. He then told me he rang from
prison and he would sent me the disk if I mailed him two blanc disks.
Which I did, and so my interest in encryption software started (and my
collection btw).
The arrival of a modem was an other improvement for expanding my
collection. Previously I bought disk from companies that advertised
in UK computer magazines, but that was expensive. A company in Baarn
had an offer for a 14K4 modem for 180 guilders (if I remember correctly)
(~90 euros) which was quite cheap for those days, so I bought one.
BBS's connected to FIDOnet were the main way for communicating those
days and the sysop of my favourite BBS 'Reflex BBS' did not mind if
I requested (encryption) programmes via his connection. If you spent
enought time online you eventually come by BBS's of the HPAV scene,
of which Utopia(Hacktic) was the most interesting. It also offered
access to internet email, which previously only was available via
a clutch at 'The Owls BBS' which had a for pay telephone number. It
took some time to get uucp to work (WAFFLE on msdos !) but eventually
it did and my node vox.hacktic.nl was born.
A friend wrote a remailer programme for Waffle so I decided to try it
out, and it went life in May 1994.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...=
source
: Just how does this work (aside from the POP3 being handled by the ISP
: without TLS or SSL)?
No pop, just plain smtp and the mail was processed via a procmail script and
either
spooled in my home directory or sent to mtp.xs4all.nl for delivery. TLS/SSL
wasn't
there yet.
Cheers,
-aj-
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