            This is the Freedom Remailer distribution, version 2.4
                   Copyright (C) 1995-1997  John B. Fleming
                 Changes are: (C) 1997-1998  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 Src directory should contain a directory named `pcre'.  PCRE is
  available from ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/pcre/.

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 and GPG encrypted messages with "Encrypted: PGP" header
 * Hashmark (##) header pasting, multiple-line header support
 * Double-colon (::) extra-header recognition
 * sends help, public keys, statistics, and configuration on request
 * source, destination, and newsgroup 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 .sigs 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 URLs with "Get-URL:" header and URL blocking support
 * Chaining messages through Mixmasters with "Remix-To:" header
 * Transparent Mixmaster or PGP encryption of intermediate hops
 * 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 GNU Wget utility to get the file and PGP to ASCII-armor it and
append it to the message.  After that, the message will be processed as usual.

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 program is free software; you can redistribute it under the terms
of the GNU General Public License.  See the file COPYING for details.

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

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