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Review my project: Anonymous email (maskur.com)
2 points by maskur on Nov 12, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This is only anonymous in a casual sense. The relaying party knows who both of you are. For anonymous email in the cryptographic sense, see http://mixminion.net/.

This type of site has value for the low-risk situations where you don't want to deal with the high latency of remailer networks. You trade all but the most rudimentary security for that convenience. And in a lot of situations that is fine (like the lock on my front door).


It looks interesting, but I think you're going to run into a trust issue.

If I wanted to email someone anonymously, I'd feel more comfortable just going and registering a free email account with gmail or hotmail or something. Then I don't have to worry about what happens to the data on your servers.

What's the argument for using this over just registering an anonymous account somewhere?




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