What is a Mixmaster Remailer?
Also known as a Type II remailer, this kind of remailer accepts messages in the Mixmaster format. It doesn’t use a PGP key but instead it uses it’s own Mix key based on RSA and Triple-DES encryption. Messages are sent through chains of Mixmaster remailers. Each remailer removes one layer of encryption, and forwards the message. When the final remailer delivers the decrypted message to the recipient, it is impossible to find out where it came from even if part of the remailer chain is compromised. Mixmaster remailers improve on Cypherpunk remailers by making traffic analysis much more difficult. It does this by making all incoming and outgoing messages the same size (28.1kb) and by re-ordering messages before delivery – so that traffic coming in cannot be associated necessarily with traffic going out.
Also known as a Type II remailer, this kind of remailers accepts messages in the Mixmaster format. It doesn’t use a PGP key but, instead, it uses it’s own Mix key based on RSA and Triple-DES encryption. Messages are sent through chains of Mixmaster remailers. Each remailer removes one layer of encryption, and forwards the message. When the final remailer delivers the decrypted message to the recipient, it is impossible to find out where it came from even if part of the remailer chain is compromised. Mixmaster remailers improve on Cypherpunk remailers by making traffic analysis much more difficult. They do it by making all incoming and outgoing messages the same size (28.1kb) and by re-ordering messages before delivery – so that the traffic coming in cannot be associated necessarily with the traffic going out.
