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   Nomen Nescio to A not so "Anonymous User" known as    
   Re: YAMN an anonymous remailer program   
   03 Jun 25 11:43:57   
   
   XPost: alt.privacy.anon-server   
   From: nobody@dizum.com   
      
   A not so "Anonymous User" known as Gabx wrote:   
      
   >YAMN stands for "Yet Another Mix Net"   
   >   
   >YAMN (https://github.com/crooks/yamn) tries to look   
   >like its famous older brother Mixmaster. But there are   
   >some significant differences and improvements. For example,   
   >there are revised crypto functions. Instead of Mixmaster's   
   >Triple-DES,RSAES-PKCS1-v1_5 and MD5, YAMN uses AES, NaCl   
   >Box and Blake2. Also deterministic header padding has been   
   >added so as to protect against tagging attacks.   
   >   
   [...]   
   > VICTOR's YAMN WEB INTERFACE   
   >    
      
   Which, with clear text transmissions through the insecure Tor network,   
   renders all the YAMN efforts moot.   
      
   In MID <20250603.031220.c2ba0d14@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> that Gabx   
   herself even told us:   
      
   | Reality check:   
   | Tor still knows where you came from.   
   | So do we.   
      
   IOW Gabx claims to know who users are and what they are posting!   
      
   So don't use that honeypot!   
      
   Local remailer clients like OmniMix are the way to go.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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