Tonga (operated locally)

History

On September 13, 2001, Lance Cottrell of Anonymizer.com posted the following to the Cypherpunks mailing list.:

In addition to showing that we will not be cowed into giving up our cherished freedoms by terrorists, this is a time when the world needs these services more than ever. In crises there is a tendency for repressive governments to crack down on communications and free access to information. It is at exactly those times that the privacy community must shine its brightest.

Two days later, on September 15, 2001, the Tonga Remailer was opened.

Specs

• Tonga Remailer is operated on an AMD K6-333 with 128M of RAM, running FreeBSD 4.5.
• It is running Mixmaster v. 2.9b33.
• Using postfix with added support for STARTTLS encryption as the Mail Transfer Agent.

Files

help.txt - Instructions.
key.txt - Tonga Remailer's Mixmaster key.

Addresses

remailer@cypherpunks.to

Address of the Remailer. In addition to sending messages here, sending an empty note to this address with any of the following subjects will give you useful info:

Subject: remailer-help - Instructions on how to use the remailer.
Subject: remailer-conf - Current configuration of the remailer.
Subject: remailer-key - Current Mixmaster key for the remailer.
Subject: remailer-stats - Hourly/Daily statistics of the type/number of messages that pass through the remailer.

abuse@cypherunks.to

Send a message here to prevent receipt of any future remailer messages.

tonga@cypherpunks.to

Remailer admin's address. Send general comments, questions, suggestions, donations, jokes, recipes, and death threats here. A real human will read them.

Links

Other Remailers

• Anonmtq
• Antonomasia
• Dizum
• Farout
• Green
• Frog
• Gretchen
• Orange
• Riot
• Xganon

Stats/Keys

• Weasel
• List of Operational and Defunct Mail Servers -- Includes a list of remailers -- last updated Jan. 2000.

Software

• Mixmaster -- Client/Remailer that runs on *NIX.
• Potato Software -- Provides JBN, Reliable, etc. for Win* (GPL'd).

Papers

• Ulf Moeller's Mixmaster Protocol v.2 & Mixmaster Protocol v.3
• Lance Cotrell's Mixmaster & Remailer Attacks & Mixmaster FAQ

Misc

• ANONYMITY on the INTERNET L. Detweiler's FAQ
• http://world.std.com/~franl/crypto/remailers.html
• Anonymity and Privacy on the Internet
• A Brief History of anon.penet.fi by Sabine Helmers
• End Notes to a Paper on Anonymity
• The Church of Scientology vs. anon.penet.fi
• Steve Gielda's encounter with the FBI (Cotse)
• The Electronic Frontier: the Challenge of Unlawful Conduct Involving the Use of the Internet March 2000 report by the President's Working Group on Unlawful Conduct on the Internet
• Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected by Karina Rigby
• Recommendations for Anonymous Remailer Policy at Oberlin College by Megan Burns
• Should Individuals be Allowed to Remain Anonymous on the Internet?: Does McIntyre v. Ohio Hold the Clues? by Garion D. Brown
• Remailer Liability by Samir Masri
• Anonymous Remailer Liability for Defamation by Manuel C. Pernas
• Cripto Remailer is down due to the server sized [sic]
• RTC Letter From Thomas M. Small "To Internet Remailer Operators, January 3, 1995
• Red Rock Eater Digest - Scientology and remailers

Lists

• Remailer-Operators (remops) -- Send request to mailto://remailer-operators-request@anon.lcs.mit.edu to find out how to subscribe.
• Mixmaster Development List -- Visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixmaster-devel