[Ryan replied on the list to a private email I sent him. I'm sending the original letter to provide context for his reply.]
Peter Trei > ---------- > From: Trei, Peter > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:15 AM > To: 'Ryan Lackey' > Subject: RE: "quitting havenco", not quite! > > > > ---------- > From: Ryan Lackey[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 5:48 PM > To: Trei, Peter > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: "quitting havenco", not quite! > > > Ryan and the other HavenCo folks deserve *massive* kudos for this. > > (now, when is the HavenCo remailer going online? :-) > > The remailer has been up since 16 September 2001, and was announced to > this list among others. http://remailer.havenco.com/ > > Oops! (more kudos to you!) > > Followed by: (I have them for myself now, not commercial-grade yet) > * Anonymizing proxy on Sealand, cover general traffic as well as > havenco-destination traffic. Free and no ads to havenco-destination > sites; free and ads and rate-limiting to elsewhere, or subscription. > > Now that Safeweb is down, this would be really nice. A suggestion: > > Protecting traffic between the end-user and the proxy is as and > sometimes more important to the user as protecting the target > user from the target web site. > > Safeweb did this pretty well, using SSL between the user and > safeweb, and rewriting the URLs as encrypted strings. (There was > a javascript frame on the end users browser, but I'm sure you > know all that). Protecting the target URLs from observation is > almost as important as protecting the content. > > Thus, once Safeweb was going, an observer on the firewall > could find nothing except the volume of traffic between the > user and safeweb. > > Of course, safeweb went tits-up, so their economic model (they > were ad-supported) is questionable. > > There are a couple other systems out there that are similar; > www.the-cloak.com for one. > > I've a small list of links on this, if it would be helpful. For > example: http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ > > Peter
