Top Document: APAS Anonymous Remailer Use [FAQ 7/8]: Nyms Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: [FAQ 7.2] How do I get a particular nym server's key? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge A nym account is like a forwarding email address except that it offers the additional feature of anonymity. Not even the nym server operator knows who you are! You set up an account with one of the three nym servers (see #3.2 and #7.2) by sending a config message. In it you provide a newly created PGP public key for your chosen nym (say, boozehound@redneck.gacracker.org), some configuration options (like +signsend, -fingerkey, +nobcc, etc...) and finally a reply block so the nym server can send any replies back to you through a chain of remailers of your own choosing, or if you prefer, to a newsgroup like alt.anonymous.messages or alt.anonymous. Nyms are different than just sending through anonymous remailers. When posting through a simple remailer or chain of remailers there is no way for anyone to reply to your message via e-mail unless you include a repliable address such as a Hotmail account in the body of the message, or signature. Additionally, most remailers do not allow any type of From: header to be posted, so your message will appear to come from 'Anonymous', 'Anonymous Sender' or similar. When posting through a nym account, the reply-able nym address remains intact in the message headers. Reply-able AND anonymous! Setting up a nym can be done manually (with PGP and a text editor) or through software like JBN or Private Idaho. Either way you should read up on the process before trying your hand at it. Here are some very good tutorials about nym creation: Nym creation and use for mere mortals <http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/nym.html> Using JBN: <http://www.skuz.net/potatoware/jbn2/JBNH-en.htm#NymBookCreate> Also: <http://mixmaster.shinn.net/nym/index.html> <http://anon.xg.nu/nym_doc.html> User Contributions:Top Document: APAS Anonymous Remailer Use [FAQ 7/8]: Nyms Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: [FAQ 7.2] How do I get a particular nym server's key? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Part8 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: turing+apas-user-faq@eskimo.com (Computer Cryptology)
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