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- This software comes in a client only configuration! If you want
- to setup a mixmaster server, read through the example files,
- man page and keep in mind, that the server stores all it's files
- in $MIXPATH (/etc/mixmaster by default).
- The purpose of anonymous remailers (hereafter simply remailers) is
- to provide protection against traffic analysis. Traffic analysis
- is the study of who you are communicating with, when, and how often.
- This reveals more than you might expect about your activities. It
- will indicate who your friends and colleagues are (and they can be
- told apart by looking at the times you contact them). What your
- interests are, from which catalog companies you contact, and which
- ftp and WWW sites you visit. Traffic analysis can even reveal
- business secrets, e.g. your frequent contact with a rival could
- give hints of an impending merger.
- Remailers protect your e-mail from traffic analysis. The original
- remailers did this by removing all headers, except the subject line,
- from any message you sent to them and then forwarding them a
- destination of your choice. The recipient of such a message would
- not know who had sent it.
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