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- no more sgid _mixmaster - no more global pool - every user has his own pool/config in ~/.Mix, with SYSCONFDIR/mixmaster/client.cfg providing a default configuration - add sample script to fetch remailer keys/statistics from Peter Palfrader <peter at palfrader dot org> - remove WWW while here - fix a bounds warning - bump PKGNAME
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This software comes in a client only configuration! If you want
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to setup a mixmaster server, read through the example files,
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man page and keep in mind, that the server stores all it's files
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in $MIXPATH (/etc/mixmaster by default).
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The purpose of anonymous remailers (hereafter simply remailers) is
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to provide protection against traffic analysis. Traffic analysis
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is the study of who you are communicating with, when, and how often.
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This reveals more than you might expect about your activities. It
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will indicate who your friends and colleagues are (and they can be
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told apart by looking at the times you contact them). What your
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interests are, from which catalog companies you contact, and which
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ftp and WWW sites you visit. Traffic analysis can even reveal
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business secrets, e.g. your frequent contact with a rival could
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give hints of an impending merger.
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Remailers protect your e-mail from traffic analysis. The original
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remailers did this by removing all headers, except the subject line,
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from any message you sent to them and then forwarding them a
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destination of your choice. The recipient of such a message would
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not know who had sent it.
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