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Everyone has the occassional need to send
Anonymous mail. You may even want the person to be able to reply to the anon. mail.
I am NOT an expert on remailers, but I do know a couple of neat tricks I will be
glad to share with you. If these little tips pique your interest, go to the PGP Users Mailing List Page for links to FAQs and
technical info about remailers.
Sending Anonymous Email
 | To send an anonymous message, address the TO: box in your
e-mail program to one of the following Remailers. There are many more remailers than
these.
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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| Fill in the subject line any way you like, keep in mind
though, some remailers remove the subject line. The remailer at replay.com does not
pass the subject line along.
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| In the body of the message, place two colons (::) side-by
side on the first line, all the way to the left. YOU MUST PUT THE DOUBLE COLON ON THE VERY
FIRST LINE, ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT FOR THIS TO
WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| On the very next line, type in the phrase (this is who you
want the mail to go to):
Request-Remailing-To: [email protected]
- Capitalization is important - BE SURE TO TYPE THE ABOVE EXACTLY!
- Be sure that you put a hyphen between the words, as shown.
- Be sure to put a colon after the word "To:"
- Be sure to leave a space after the colon before entering a e-mail address
- Now, skip a line and start typing your message that you want the person to receive. You
can also attach a file, if your e-mailer will allow it.
- Your message body should look like this:
::
Request-Remailing-To: [email protected]
(This is where the message goes)
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| THAT'S IT! Send the message! |
Receiving E-Mail Without
the Sender Knowing Who They Are Sending To
| The following tips assume that you have
PGP installed and have a general working knowledge of the program's use
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| If you want to send anonymous email to someone, but want them
to be able to reply to you, you need to setup an encrypted reply block. What is
that, you ask? Basically, you encrypt your email address and put it into your
anonymous email, along with instructions for using the reply block.
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| The concept is simple: You will be encrypting your own e-mail
address with a remailers public key. You will then attach this ENCRYPTED REPLY BLOCK to
the bottom of the message you are sending, with instructions for the recipient to send the
block, and any additional message they want to add, to the remailer. When the remailer
receives this encrypted reply block, they will decrypt the message and since the first
line in the message is a properly formatted request to remail the message to you - they
will do just that!
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| First, you need to get the Public Key of the remailer you
want to use. Here is the key for the remailer at replay.com:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGP Cyber-Knights Templar build 5.5.3ckt
mQCKAy/Bo9QAAAED6NMBE5oNGLqUmZvUZTWBfL41B67EVtDHu5VmqrPLX6w0gk8U
lPUNlW/1wACNQAFs/hxKKd0B15d8R7Qk1X7H1KPsdF9AAp8DIBe3MN59Z8iO1dYB
GW8YhPg2EXnNAZyVQb/CGhDZhm8naq3wsQynZZu4J7DmVD0VsrLnrsHlAAURtC1S
ZXBsYXkgUmVtYWlsZXIgU2VydmljZSA8cmVtYWlsZXJAcmVwbGF5LmNvbT6JAJUD
BRAxVWFKOIed2hLKickBAQxCBACekG8dN3ZuOsBwsjSjG5uzHs61j2fZ/7rbJf/f
mWTsVC+uccggqQle6kj+32yuH9GZf4weEmMAKEhPhx/V0p4gQf4eca179sAK+Kw2
7MdzXBbomjqbYnT3RlTkc7dZ3sXoqidUUpC1VZCAR1ImOos7B7gT5UM184Kk7M4G
8B+glA==
=bQMo
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
- Copy the key above into the clipboard (highlight the key and press Ctrl-C), then open up
PGP Keys and select Edit | Paste to paste the key into your keyring
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| Now, we need to create the encrypted reply block.
- Open Windows Notepad
- Type in a properly formatted request remailing header to yourself. If I were doing
this to my email address [email protected],
it would look like this:
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Request-Remailing-To: [email protected]
- highlight the text, copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl-C)
- right-click the little PGP icon in your start bar (it looks like a little lock) and
choose Encrypt Clipboard
- use the key from above to encrypt the file with. The key should be this one:
Replay Remailer Service [email protected]
- Go back to Notepad, and click on File | New to create a new document
- Now, hit Ctrl-V to paste the encrypted text into Notepad
- You have just created your own Encrypted Reply Block (called an ERB)!
- I suggest that you save this as a TXT document for all future use.
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| Now that you have an encrypted reply block (ERB), you need to
create instructions for the recipient to follow so that the message actually makes it back
to you! I suggest that you put your instructions in the same file that you saved your ERB
in. Then, you can use this file as a Signature File in your e-mail program! If you use
this method, any e-mail you send will include all of the necessary information for the
receipient to respond back to you - and you'll remain anonymous! Here is a set of sample
instructions.
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The above message was sent to you through an anonymous remailer, therefore, you can not
reply using the "reply to" feature of your e-mailer. If you'd like to send a
reply to me, please follow these instructions EXACTLY.
The unreadable text at the bottom of this email is actually my e-mail address, which has
been encrypted (scrambled) using a program called PGP. The remailer which you will
address this message to has the "key" to decrypt (unscramble) my email address,
then forward the message on to me.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Open a NEW e-mail message (do not use the "reply to" feature)
2. Address the message to: [email protected]
3. Make the subject anything you like
4. Copy (highlight, then press CTRL+C) everything from the :: (double colon) at the bottom
of this email all the way through and including the dashed line underneath -----END PGP
MESSAGE-----
5. Paste(CTRL+V)this encrypted reply block into the body of the new message you just
opened.
6. The :: (double colon) MUST BE ON THE FIRST LINE, ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT in the message
body. If it isn't, this message won't make it to me.
7. Type your reply below the dashed line underneath -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
8. Be sure to include your e-mail address in your message, or I won't know who this
message came from.
(copy everything below this sentence, not including this sentence)
::
Encrypted: PGP
{Remove this sentence and replace it with your Encrypted Reply Block,
ensuring that there is (1) one blank line between the -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- and
the phrase Encrypted: PGP}
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| Use the example below as a guide of what the entire message
body you will be sending to the remailer will look like when you're finished. Notice that
the message WILL include an encrypted reply block. Also, remember that this message will
be addressed to: [email protected]
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Request-Remailing-To: [email protected]
Hey John,
Just wanted to say I hated your Xmas party last year, and your wife is a bore!
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The above message was sent to you through an anonymous remailer, therefore, you can not
reply using the "reply to" feature of your e-mailer. If you'd like to send a
reply to me, please follow these instructions EXACTLY.
The unreadable text at the bottom of this email is actually my
e-mail address, which has been encrypted (scrambled) using a program called PGP. The
remailer which you will address this message to has the "key" to decrypt
(unscramble) my email address, then forward the message on to me.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Open a NEW e-mail message (do not use the "reply to" feature)
2. Address the message to: [email protected]
3. Make the subject anything you like
4. Copy (highlight, then press CTRL+C) everything from the :: (double colon) at the bottom
of this email all the way through and including the dashed line underneath -----END PGP
MESSAGE-----
5. Paste(CTRL+V)this encrypted reply block into the body of the new message you just
opened.
6. The :: (double colon) MUST BE ON THE FIRST LINE, ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT in the message
body. If it isn't, this message won't make it to me.
7. Type your reply below the dashed line underneath -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
8. Be sure to include your e-mail address in your message, or I won't know who this
message came from.
(copy everything below this sentence, not including this sentence)
::
Encrypted: PGP
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: PGP Cyber-Knights Templar build 5.5.3ckt
hQCJAz0VsrLnrsHlAQPmMHHVL2YoGfgPb55oPDsdIdcg4EnKBd2ZpkpT1P9P2e9q
Q3pck9EkKp6P3VqeZLdiL7ex/gSU3QgSujq6MLSiepSAKJLT8XzC8uqvdaSZ/xsu
GPt1eT6H1AH8fkdnwySLwHpfHJKo1mPPNBM//LygOkdPnsNgh3wHNkgvgkGkSRki
Z38YF+m0TW/wREpOkYmEkzCLZqgy0VmgDvpwHxp1k9uqYWmJhcX8A7ovlgn7um/q
N+VyGb0IiwNY3d+pMecK3t6PBIgWg3o=
=5ukD
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
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| THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT!! John received an anonymous
message and can reply to you - yet he won't know who you are!
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