Mixmaster and Private Idaho 2.7
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Mixmaster (or Type II) remailers offer a high level of security 
(see http://www.obscura.com/~loki for complete details).  Up until now,
Mixmaster has only been available to UNIX users.  Mixmaster's author, 
Lance Cottrell, has recently released a DOS client version of the 
application that works with Private Idaho 2.7b (and later).

Since the Mixmaster client uses export-controlled cryptography, it is not
included with Private Idaho.  Refer to http://www.obscura.com/~loki for 
information on how to get a copy of MIXMASTE.ZIP (the compressed version
of Mixmaster and its support files).

To be able to send messages through Mixmaster remailers you need several 
files:

MIXMASTE.EXE - the Mixmaster client
MIXMASTE.CON - a support file
PUBRING.MIX - the list of Mixmaster remailer keys
TYPE2.LIS - the list of Mixmaster remailers
MIXMASTE.HTM - statistics on Mixmaster remailers
MIX.PIF - the PIF file for shelling to the DOS application

These files are included in the MIXMASTE.ZIP file.  Uncompress the files and
move them to the directory containing Private Idaho.

After you've installed these files, in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file add the 
following line:

MIXPATH=C:\PIDAHO 

with the directory path specifying the Private Idaho directory.  Reboot your 
computer and run Private Idaho.

Using Mixmaster remailers with Private Idaho is no different than using 
Cypherpunk style remailers.  Select Mixmaster from the Remailers menu, 
compose and address your message, select the remailer(s) from the drop-down
list box to use, and choose Append info from the Message menu.

Private Idaho will shell out to the DOS version of Mixmaster, and prepare 
the message for sending.

Note: The 2.7b beta release of Private Idaho does not support sending 
Mixmaster messages directly from Private Idaho.  You need to transfer the 
encrypted message to your normal e-mail in order to send it.  This will be 
fixed in a later release.

You'll need to update information about Mixmaster remailers, just like 
Cypherpunk remailers.  Specifically the PUBRING.MIX, TYPE2.LIS, and
MIXMASTE.HTM files.

Updated Mixmaster information can be found at:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html

and

http://www.jpunix.com

Please address any comments, questions about Private Idaho to:

Joel McNamara
joelm@eskimo.com
