Echolot

Description

Echolot is a Pinger for anonymous remailers.

Echolot, das: (German) sonic depth finder

A Pinger in the context of anonymous remailers is a program that regularily sends messages through remailers to check their reliability. It then calculates reliability statistics which are used by remailer clients to choose the chain of remailers to use.

Additionally it collects configuration parameters and keys of all remailers and offers them in a format readable by remailer clients.

You can find released tarballs at http://echolot.alioth.debian.org/ or Debian packages in the archive http://packages.debian.org/echolot.

If you're interested in accessing the development tree, just checkout Echolot via Subversion:

svn co svn://svn.debian.org/echolot/trunk/ echolot

Requirements

• *NIX
• Perl:
  • HTML::Template (available on CPAN: HTML::Template)
    • File::Spec (part of perl base since at perl 5.005)
  • Data::Dumper (part of perl base since perl 5.004_71)
  • Digest::MD5 (part of perl base since perl 5.8; available on CPAN: Digest::MD5)
  • GnuPG::Interface (>= 0.33; available on CPAN: GnuPG::Interface)
    • Class::MethodMaker (available on CPAN: Class::MethodMaker)
• A local Mail Transfer Agent (postfix, sendmail, exim, ...)
• Gnu Privacy Guard (gpg) (>= 1.0.7)
• Mixmaster

Mailinglists

Closed down as of April 2008.

• echolot-announce -- Announcement regarding the Echolot pinger (Archives)
• echolot-users -- User support and general discussion about Echolot (Archives)

Sites running Echolot

• AARG! Pinger
• austria
• banana
• cf
• chicago remailer
• citrus
• cside
• dot (hyperreal.info)
• frell.eu.org
• george
• gurski.org
• hermes
• metacolo
• Noreply
• paranoia
• Randseed Pinger

Other Pingers

• pingstats by cmeclax
• remlist by Christian Mock
• rlist by Raph Levien

Peter Palfrader