What is chaining?
Chaining is using more than one remailer to send your encrypted message. Basically, you send a message to remailer A with instructions to send it to remailer B, which in turn finds instructions to send it to remailer C, and so on, until the final recipient receives the message. The intention is to obfuscate the origin of the email and/or (with the help of encryption) the content of the message body. At any given point on it’s route, such a message will reveal only where it came from and where it is going. If the message was not chained (only one remailer was used) then that remailer operator or a successful traffic analyst can know the true source and destination of the message.
Chaining is using more than one remailer to send your encrypted message. Basically, you send a message to remailer A with instructions to send it to remailer B, which in turn finds instructions to send it to remailer C, and so on, until the final recipient receives the message. The intention is to obfuscate the origin of the e-mail and/or (with the help of encryption) the content of the message body. At any given point on it’s route, such a message will reveal only where it came from and where it is going. If the message was not chained (only one remailer was used) then that remailer operator or a successful traffic analyst can know the true source and destination of the message.
