How to Find and Import the Public PGP Key of Your Remailer

Anonymity and privacy are not the same, but using a remailer for anonymity without using encryption for privacy does not work.

If you send your message through just one remailer and unencrypted, the remailer operator (or somebody monitoring their email traffic!) knows both where the email came from, where it is heading and its contents. No privacy, no anonymity.

To prevent this, you have to chain at least two remailers and encrypt the message using OpenPGP. To encrypt the message, you have to know the remailers' public keys.

Find and Import the Public PGP Key of Your Remailer

To find and import the public key of your remailer:

• Make sure you have either PGP or GnuPG installed.
• Send an empty email to the remailer with "remailer-key" (not including the quotation marks) in the subject line.
• Import the PGP key you get back into PGP or GnuPG.