[Remops] [Mixmaster-devel] Proposal for change of "official" Mixmaster

[Lance Cottrell]

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I am very much in support of this proposal. The old code needs to be
retired and the move to 4096 bits completed.

    -Lance Cottrell

On 9/15/15, 12:45 PM, Steve Crook wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As many of you are probably aware, Mixmaster was forked in 2013 and
> modified to support 4096 bit keys at the cost of reducing the potential
> maximum hops from 20 to (worst case) 10.  Other improvements were made,
> either at the time or through ongoing development and Mixmaster now
> supports AES_CTR encryption and HMAC authentication.  The current packet
> format is documented within the repository.
>
> Currently there are 27 publicly advertised Remailers, of which 10 are
> running the forked code.  Of these, 9 are advertising 4096 bit RSA keys.
> I speculate that there are a number of reasons why more have not
> migrated.  These include:
>
> 1) The fork isn't recognised as the "official" version.
> 2) The forked version isn't packaged for any major Linux distros.
> 3) The Remailer is running on auto-pilot.
>
> I'd like to propose that the community addresses the first two on this
> list by recognising the fork as the current, official Mixmaster version.
> The repository resides on Github[1] and is publicly accessible.  The
> Debian package, currently maintained by Colin Tuckley can be migrated to
> the forked code if this proposal is greeted favourably.  Package
> maintainers for other distros will probably follow in their own
> timescales.
>
> In terms of client compatibility, along with Mixmaster itself,
> Quicksilver and Omnimix are known to work with the forked Mixmaster.
> Indeed, their current versions are compiled against it.  Very old
> clients, such as Jack B. Nymble and Private Idaho will not work but this
> is nothing new, they still rely on Mixmaster versions that haven't been
> revised in well over a decade.
>
> I'm posting this to:-
> The Mixmaster Developers List (Sourceforge)
> Remops Mailing List (http://lists.mixmin.net)
> alt.privacy.anon-server (Usenet)
>
> If discussions are favourable, I propose that we adopt the forked Github
> repository as the official Mixmaster version.
>
> Best wishes,
> Steve Crook
>
> [1] https://github.com/merkinmuffley/mixmaster4096
>
>
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