Sending a really anonymous email could be very easy if you complete these steps. Please, be advised that all steps must be completed carefully. Let’s take an elementary, imaginary example.
- First, find and choose one functional and reliable remailers. A remailer is a computer service which privatizes your email. Not all remailers are always online or functional, but it is possible to investigate the reliability of a remailer before using it. In my experience, truly ANONYMOUS remailers are used almost entirely by computer programmers and hobbyists who love the technical ins and outs of the Internet.
- Get the public PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) keys of the remailers. This will allow the message to be encrypted for anonymity and privacy. It is important to know the public keys of both remailers. To do this, either the program PGP Home 9.0 or GnuPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) must be installed. They can be used to download the PGP keys for the remailers.
- Open Note pad. Any other plain text editor available will also work.
- On the first line type “::”.
- Enter “Anon-To:” followed by the recipient’s email address. Leave one line blank then begin typing the message.
- Save the file to your computer as “mail.txt.”
- On Windows, select ‘Run’ from the Start menu and type “cmd” and press Enter. On other platforms, open a command prompt.
- Use “cd” to go to your Desktop directory. This is what it looks like on windows, “cd c:\Documents and Settings\menon\Desktop”.
- Type in “gpg-ea-r [last remailer address] remail.txt.”. Replace [last remailer address] with the email address of the last remailer in the chain. If two are being used, the last one is the second remailer’s address. For example, to send an anonymous email through remailer@aaabbb.net then through anon@wayway1.org, type in “gpg-ea-r anon@wayway1.org mail.txt”.
- Press Enter. GnuPG should ask for verification that the message is encrypted to an unverified key. Type “y” and Press Enter.
- Open the encrypted mail.txt file in Note pad. The file might be named “mail.txt.asc” or simply “mail.asc.” Type “::” in the first line and press Enter.
- Type “Anon-To:” followed by email address of the last remailer in the chain. The next to last remailer needs to send the message to the last remailer. This is the email address for which the message was encrypted.
- Leave one line blank, type in “::” and press Enter, then type Encrypted: PGP”. Be sure that there is another empty line before the encrypted message starts.
- Save the file as “mail.txt” again and overwrite the existing file.
- Go back on the command line and type “gpg-ea-r [next but last remailer address] mail.txt”. Replace this [next but last remailer address] with the email address of the next but last remailer in the chain.
- GnuPG should ask for verification that the message is encrypted to an unverified key. Type “y” and press Enter. This should overwrite the existing “mail.asc” file. Open the file again and enter “::” at the top, followed, in the next line, by “Encrypted: PGP”, and leave one line blank, again, before the message starts.
- Press CTRL-A (or ALT-A depending on the platform) to select the entire text, then CTRL-C or ALT-C to copy.
- Create a new message in the email service and address it to the first remailer in the chain. Then paste the text in the message and send.
It is possible that something get wrong if any step is not completed perfectly. Please be advised on that. In some emails, when prefixes are attached to numerals, the compounds are hyphenated. Also, prefixed that are repeated in the same compound are separated by an hyphen.
on Dec 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
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