            This is the Freedom Remailer distribution, version 2.1.2
                      Copyright (C) 1995, John B. Fleming
                    Changes are: (C) 1997, Johannes Kroeger
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  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.0
  as published by the Free Software Foundation.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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* For installation instructions, please read the file INSTALLATION.
* For information on blocking, including information on the regular
  expression support, read README.blocking

The Freedom Remailer's features were inspired by those contained in Matt
Ghio's remailer but it was written independently and with no code
borrowing, excepting the statistics code which was at first stolen with
few modifications, but has since been heavily modified.  The stats code
was originally written by Matthew Ghio (mg5n+@cmu.edu).

It supports Type I (Cypherpunk) message remailing.  Its features include:
 * anonymous remailing, recognizing a variety of remailing headers
 * support for PGP encrypted messages with "Encrypted: PGP" header
 * Hashmark (##) header pasting
 * Double-colon (::) extra-header recognition
 * sends help, PGP key, and statistics on request
 * source, destination, newsgroup and subject regexp blocking
 * filter for unwanted or compromising header lines
 * Anonymous posting to Usenet with "Anon-Post-To:" header
 * ignores cover traffic messages with "Null:" header
 * Deleting .sig's and sending several messages at once with "Cutmarks:" header
 * Symmetric PGP encryption with "Encrypt-Key:" header
 * IDEA-encryption of MD5-hashed subject with "Encrypt-Subject:" header
 * Delayed message delivery with "Latent-Time:" header
 * Retrieving files with "Get-URL:" and "Get-HTML-Source:" header
   with "Return-To:" and URL blocking support
 * Writing messages to a Mixmaster reordering pool
 * Sending log messages to the syslogd daemon
 * Runtime configuration file "freedom.conf"

If the remailer gets a message with the header "Get-URL: http://blah/blah.html"
it will use the Lynx WWW browser to get the file.  If "Return-To:" was also
used, the results are mailed to that address, else they are mailed to the
sender of the request.  Before sending the response, the original message
body is prepended.  So with combined use of "Return-To:" and encrypted reply
blocks, URL and HTML requests can be made through a chain of remailers as well
and the response can be chained back through another chain of remailers.
"Get-HTML-Source:" will get the HTML source rather then a formatted page.

For information on compiling and installation, see the file "INSTALLATION"
provided with this distribution.

The Freedom Remailer was developed under Linux.  However, it is also known
to run under SunOS, Ultrix, OSF/1, and Solaris 2.4.  It should also work
on HP/UX now.  If you get it working elsewhere, please let me know; if it
required patches, please submit them to me.

This code is provided under the terms of the GNU public license.  A copy
is provided with this distribution under the guise of the "COPYING" file.

To get the latest version, send mail to <remailer-source@squirrel.owl.de>.

To contact the maintainer via e-mail, send mail to <hanne@squirrel.owl.de>.
