Hi, and sorry about the delay. I've been hacking. :) On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:52:45PM -0500, Robert Guerra wrote: [...] > 1. integration with existing email clients - either via a plugin, or > via proxy type server. > > Are there , for example any plans for a Mozilla and/or thunderbird plugin? People have proposed plans, but so far as I know, none have progressed beyond the wouldn't-that-be-nice level. As far as I know, nobody's working on a plug-in right now. George has checked in some example POP/SMTP/IMAP proxy code in src/minion/etc, but it definitely needs more testing, auditing, and development. For integration, the current CVS code includes a proposed (but not yet implemented) API in ClientAPI.py; this may or may not be helpful to people. > 2. reliability stats - ie. Picking remailers that are in fact "up" > and can relay the message. > > I've sent a couple of test messages through the network using the > basic/simple instructions that are available - and i've not had many > messages get received . Is there a setting that when picking a server > , preferentially picks high uptime servers ? > > Hope to participate in this list, and hope that can bring all the > work that's been done to the field workers that could use it. For reasons unknown, the last month or so has seen a drop-off in reliability. The current (v0.0.7.1) directory code *does* try to track server liveness, but only in the most naive sense: servers are listed as "recommended" in a directory if they are running when the directory is generated -- neither past history nor ability to relay nor ability to deliver mail are considered. This should be mitigated with 0.0.8; as of yesterday, the CVS code includes working support for built-in reliability probing, using the same algorithms as the popular "echolot" remailer pinger. More work is needed in this area, but I think we're off to a good start here. In particular, the code should check mail delivery as well as packet relay, but it doesn't yet. Also, Danezis and Sassaman's work on Red-Green-Black Mixes would make a natural addition. [1] http://freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html#danezis:wpes2003 hth, -- Nick Mathewson
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