Re: is tor an email mixmaster?

["Karsten N." <tor-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

someone has setup an open SMTP relay as hidden service:

  oogjrxidhkttf6vl.onion    port: 587

May be, it works. I did not test it. :-(

Karsten N.

M. Peterson schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> want to know, if tor is as well an email mixmaster,
> e.g. we have an email client, which is sending only pgp encrypted emails,
> then the ISP is excluded as he cannot read, but data retention laws allow to
> log the IP from where the email is sent and the email server knows the last
> exit point of the encrypted package (email).
> If now in this email client an onion routing system would be enabled, then
> all email (enc. Packages) would be routed, and some exit nodes would deliver
> them.
> Is this already possible with Tor? Are there enough exit nodes? would it be
> possible and useful for email services to force every node to be an exit
> node for encry. packets to email accounts? how much bandwidth is a node
> requiring then for mixing/forwarding emails only?
> are there developers working on that? or interested?
> 
> Regards
>