is tor an email mixmaster?

[M. Peterson]

Hi Andrew, you missed one important point, tor-email-button is done in an
email client, which is sending openPGP encrypted emails only,
then you have an exit node, sending the packet to the mail server - or not,
if the mail has not been delivered, the mail was not going out, so the smtp
server sends that notice back.
So everyone who runs tor-email-button in that mail client (we already have
one in mind) is able to send the message out or can pop up the mails (which
should be encrypted).
Well the question is every node or not is an outproxy is not the question,
the question is, if we can architect that for an email client, sending PGP
encrypted mails only, then many problems are solved.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:11 PM, <phobos at rootme.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:03:53PM +0100, petersonmaxx at googlemail.comwrote 3.5K bytes in 68 lines about:
> : is it possible to make a kind of tor button, so that all users using a
> kind
> : of email client are a outproxy or hidden service, or must it be hidden
> : service?
> : so a torbutton with default on smtp relay /exitnode for email?
>
> The challenge is in developing a tor extension for a mail client.  Tor is
> still developing torbutton to address the changes and anonymity risks in
> firefox 2 and 3.
>
> There once was a torbutton for thunderbird.  I think all it did was
> redirect the connections to your mail servers over tor.  There are still
> many personally identifing details in the mail itself that need to be
> anonymized and cleaned.
>
> And what you seem to be asking is client as a relay by default.  This
> topic is discussed on the wiki at
> https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#EverybodyARelay
>
> --
> Andrew
>
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