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~elly/blog
Personal blog · elly.town/d/blogsecurityprogramming
~elly/blog is a personal blog at elly.town about security and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Cypherpunks, Mixmaster, and Mixminion: Anonymous Email”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its breakdown of Type I-II-III remailers, part of its anonymity-systems writing, which one commenter suggested others might enjoy.
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Most-linked posts?
- Cypherpunks, Mixmaster, and Mixminion: Anonymous Email3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-01
What Hacker News says?
You may enjoy this breakdown of type I-II-III remailers: https://elly.town/d/blog/2022-02-09-mixminion.txt I have considered porting mixminion to Go and implementing it as designed.. it's pretty interesting. I think it would be neat if you added "bridges" like an SMTP -> Mixminion and Mixminion -> IRC/Matrix/etc. Of course, you could chain something like Mixmaster -> SMTP bridge -> Mixminion or Mixminion -> Tor -> I…
Comment linking /d/blog/2022-02-09-mixminion.txt
on “Attacks on Anonymity Systems: The Theory (2003)”Submitted Cypherpunks, Mixmaster, and Mixminion: Anonymous Email as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of Code: 500 Stars as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reservoir Sampling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cypherpunks, Mixmaster, and Mixminion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advent of Code: Libraries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Binary Transparency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Binary Transparency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cypherpunks, Mixmaster, and Mixminion: Anonymous Email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cypherpunks, Mixmaster, and Mixminion: Anonymous Email as a story · 1 points
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