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Have stable history until 2.9.0 in the HISTORY file
1 1998/1999 2.9 written from scratch.
2
3 1999-04-14 2.9beta0 public preview release.
4
5 1999-05-17 2.9beta1 Bug fixes (remix, OpenPGP encryption, FreeBSD
6 name conflict); Win32 DLL.
7
8 1999-05-18 2.9beta2 Install bug fixes. -N and -n options renamed.
9
10 1999-05-19 2.9beta3 OpenSSL-related bug fix. Type 1 remailer fixes
11 (pointed out by <kev@drule.org>).
12
13 1999-05-20 2.9beta4 Read and generate OpenPGP encrypted secret keys.
14
15 1999-05-20 2.9beta5 The client sent messages if PGP encryption failed.
16
17 1999-05-28 2.9beta6 Message-ID generation bug fixes. Contributed by:
18 Johannes Kroeger <hanne@squirrel.owl.de>.
19 Remix-To bug fix.
20
21 1999-06-09 2.9beta7 More (minor) remailer and Install script fixes.
22
23 1999-06-10 2.9beta8 Regular expression bug fix. Thanks to Johannes
24 and Kevin for help with debugging!
25
26 1999-07-20 2.9beta9 Bug fixes (remailer, nym creation).
27
28 1999-08-03 2.9beta10 Fix for buffer overrun error.
29 "Chain:" pseudo-header may contain the number of
30 copies like this: `Chain: *,*,*,*; copies=3'
31
32 1999-09-09 2.9beta11 Support MIME attachments and OpenPGP/MIME in the
33 client.
34 Do not select cpunk remailers if PGP key is missing.
35 Fix error in nym creation.
36 Header lines can be edited when composing new
37 messages in the mail reader.
38 Accept empty pass phrase to allow storing the
39 nym database on an encrypted file system.
40 More verbose error messages.
41 Various minor bug fixes.
42 * Thanks to Gerd Beuster for many good suggestions!
43
44 1999-09-22 2.9beta12 OpenSSL 0.9.3 or newer is now required.
45 For the Mixmaster DLL, allow the application to
46 seed the random number generator.
47
48 1999-09-29 2.9beta13 Fix OpenPGP 3DES decryption.
49 Store DSA secret keys in PGP5 compatible format.
50 Support new "ekx" capability.
51 Use the more secure new style OpenPGP conventional
52 encryption to protect the nym database and nym
53 keys.
54
55 1999-10-01 2.9beta14 Bug fix.
56
57 1999-10-01 2.9beta15 Bug fix: create mixrand.bin in Mix directory.
58 Support "Encrypt-IDEA" directive.
59
60 1999-10-11 2.9beta16 Fix memory leaks.
61
62 1999-11-03 2.9beta17 Bug fix.
63 Sending messages is logged as DEBUGINFO.
64
65 1999-11-09 2.9beta18 Bug fix for rlist with trailing spaces.
66 Print remailer reliability (by Gerd Beuster).
67
68 1999-12-19 2.9beta19 (internal)
69
70 1999-12-19 2.9beta20 Output remailer RSA keys separately from the
71 DSA/ElGamal keys to avoid problems with old
72 versions of PGP.
73 Messages in mail folders can be deleted. Nym
74 messages and other encrypted mail will be
75 written back as plain text (by Gerd Beuster).
76 SMTP bug fix.
77 Support multiple OpenPGP decryption subkeys.
78 Fix remailer bug with Newsgroups header in encrypted
79 T1 messages.
80 Fix MIME-decoding bug (pointed out by Gerd Beuster).
81 Nym creation bug fix (by Gerd Beuster).
82
83 2000-03-09 2.9beta21 Support for PGP partial length packets (by
84 Christian Mock).
85
86 2000-03-16 2.9beta22 Bug fixes (by Antonomasia) and minor changes.
87
88 2000-06-29 2.9beta23 Bug fix for nym creation with several newsgroups
89 reply blocks (by Gerd Beuster).
90 --nym option bug fix (by Adam Back).
91
92 2001-09-11 2.9beta24 Changed pool.c to allow Mixmaster keys to pass
93 even when binary blocking is enabled. Note that
94 the solution is not a nice one: It does not
95 recognize Mix keys, it simply allows 10 lines of
96 binary garbage instead of 3. This should be enough
97 for Mix keys to come through (by Peter Palfrader).
98 Fixed a bug in pgpdata.c affecting v3 OpenPGP keys.
99 (by Michael Young).
100
101 2001-09-14 2.9beta25 Now builds with pcre3 (by Peter Palfrader).
102 Added support for destination.allow (by Peter
103 Palfrader).
104 If the sender email address or IP address matches
105 anything in source.blk, ignore the message (by
106 cmeclax).
107 Added support for the Mutt -T option (by Bill
108 O'Hanlon).
109 Patches merged (by Len Sassaman).
110
111 2001-09-17 2.9beta30 Version renamed to avoid conflicts with other
112 unofficial releases.
113
114 2001-09-19 2.9beta31 Fixed a bug in mime.c that sometimes resulted in
115 malformed text attachments (by Michael Young).
116 Better error handling (by Scott Renfro).
117 Added support for multiple dest.blk files. This
118 is needed for the Remailer Abuse Blocklist (by
119 Markus Stöger).
120 Added support for remailer-adminkey replies to
121 provide a better way for remops to distribute
122 their keys. (by Markus Stöger).
123 Fixed errors with pcre2.08 (by Rodney Thayer).
124 Added long command option --type-list for the -T
125 option, and updated help (by Len Sassaman).
126 Removed redundant "encoded" variable in mime.c.
127 Fixed Installer bugs.
128
129 2001-11-06 2.9beta32 Client functionality updates.
130 POP sockets now properly close.
131 Memory may be freed without allocating.
132 Correct time is written to mbox.
133 Key flags correctly set in key.txt. (all by
134 Disastry).
135 OpenSSL and OpenBSD Install script issues
136 addressed.
137
138 2001-12-16 2.9b33 Support for Mixmaster as a service on Windows
139 platforms added (by Disastry).
140 Problem transparently remixing to Type I remailers
141 debugged and corrected (by Andy Dustman,
142 Disastry, Senshi-Admin).
143 Fixed an error in chain.c that was causing
144 segfaults with chains greater than 20 remailers.
145 Non-multipart MIME message errors fixed.
146 Fixed an error in rfc822.c (by Scott Renfro).
147 Fixed pgpget.c errors. (by Ulf Möller).
148 No longer permits automatic blocking of entire
149 domains or newsgroups.
150 Help files re-written (by Lucky Green).
151 Fixed inconsistencies between software name and
152 package name.
153
154 2002-07-01 2.9b34 Encrypt-to directive is now supported.
155 Partial packets now properly expire if not
156 reassembled (by cmeclax).
157 Fixed an address blocking error introduced in
158 the last version (Peter Palfrader).
159 Various command line bug fixes.
160
161 2002-07-10 2.9b35 Updated zlib due to security reasons.
162 Does not generate keys in client mode.
163 Uses binary format for id.log.
164 Assorted mpgp fixes (by Disastry).
165 Added support for storing the key passphrase
166 in the mix.cfg file. (by Disastry).
167 Now reports the contents of dest.alw for
168 middleman remailers (by Kat).
169 Reworked the OpenSSL version check in the
170 Install script.
171
172 2002-08-09 2.9b36 Removed duplicate define of NYMDB from menu.h.
173 Fix a strncat() to undefined string variable in
174 mix.c (Closes: #584381).
175 Have the Makefile list all prerequisites for each
176 build target (Closes: #584386).
177 Change »majordomo@*« to »majordomo@« in default
178 dest.blk. The dest block engine does not under-
179 stand shell globs. Either substring matches or
180 regexen.
181 Fixed -T switch: if type2.list is not available fall
182 back to pubring.mix.
183 USE_IDEA is no longer default in config.h. It always
184 gets defined by the Install script instead.
185 Only create OpenPGP RSA keys if we compiled with
186 IDEA.
187 Make all filenames configurable in mix.cfg.
188 Add global mix.cfg support (compile time option).
189 The -G option now forces creation of new keys even in
190 client mode (Closes: #585176).
191 Random Documentation updates.
192 Default to not installing a .forward file in Install
193 script.
194 Fix unused variable warning on OpenBSD.
195 Fix public remailer keys getting re-signed
196 every time keys are requested (Closes: #478383).
197 Make smtp sending similar to local /usr/lib/sendmail
198 sending (wrt header/body separation;
199 Closes: #482052).
200 Add X-Loop header on mailbox forwarded messages.
201 Several small fixes by Sami Farin et al.
202 Detach correctly in daemon mode.
203 Minor Install script fixes.
204
205 2002-08-20 2.9b37 OpenPGP enhancement release (fixes by Disastry).
206 Fix a small bug in pgpdata.c that stopped Mixmaster
207 from reading cipher preferences.
208 Fixed Passphrase reading in mpgp (the test program)
209 on Windows platform.
210 Add Hash: header when clearsigning.
211 Properly handle RSA keys whose key size is not a
212 multiple of 64.
213 Remove leading zeros from MPI.
214 Use MDC packets whenever possible.
215 List CAST5 and AES128 in cipher preferences.
216 Now displays Mixmaster version in the PGP version
217 header for non remailer/nym messages.
218
219 2002-09-11 2.9b38 Install script deals with lack of patented IDEA
220 algorithm in a sane way (closes: #479020).
221 Compiled-in passphrase is now deprecated.
222 When expiring packet ids from id.log also expire
223 packets that are dated more than half a year in
224 the future. That way we get rid of invalid
225 packets introduced by the switch to a binary file.
226 The stats in remailer-stats replies always had a
227 peak at 00:00 GMT which was wrong. Fixed.
228 (closes: #597688).
229 Fixed a bug with reading armored keyrings consisting
230 of more than one armored block or having comments
231 in front of the one armored block.
232 In RSA PGP keys, we now set e=0x11.
233 Mixmaster now deletes error and temporary files
234 older than PACKETEXP time along with expired
235 partial packets.
236 Linux PPC fixes (and all other archs where char is
237 unsigned).
238
239 2002-10-07 2.9b39 Added a new feature, --store-mail (-I), which will
240 deliver an encrypted mix packet to the message pool
241 without attempting being decrypted.
242 Made minor updates for WIN32 DLL.
243 When sending type II messages interactivly you may
244 now choose a middleman remailer as the last hop
245 in your chain (closes: #481244).
246 If a footer.txt file exists its content will be
247 appended to outgoing messages leaving the remailer
248 network at this hop (closes: #490117).
249 List known remailers in remailer-conf reply (closes:
250 #480330).
251 The files created with "SENDMAIL outfile" have
252 different names now to scale beyond 10k files
253 (closes: #587593).
254 Fixed the "is a mailfolder" checking for -f.
255 Various fixes for Mixmaster when not using ncurses.
256 Added new option --config to allow loading of
257 configuration information from an alternate file.
258 POOL is now used correctly if set in mix.cfg.
259 ASCII armor checksum is now verified on PGP keys.
260 Corrected a bug where 1/4096 of pgp messages was
261 destroyed due an improper armor checksum
262 interpretation.
263 Added password-based authenticated SMTP for mix.
264 Currently, only AUTH LOGIN is supported.
265 Mixmaster now handles <CR><LF> in pubring.mix.
266 Removed incorrect NT service checks in mix.c.
267 Mixmaster now keeps no stats in client mode.
268 The pool is autmatically checked for waiting
269 messages in the client configuration.
270 Mixmaster now bears a DFSG-compliant license.
271 Fixed permissions on tarball release.
272 Documentation updates.
273
274 2002-10-16 2.9b40 New option MAILIN that can be set to either a mbox
275 or Maildir folder. New mail will be read from it
276 and the folder cleared every time Mixmaster
277 processes its pool, or at MAILINTIME intervals
278 (closes: #597043).
279 The Mixmaster daemon now writes a pid file.
280 Mixmaster in daemon mode now catches SIGTERM and
281 SIGINT and finishes its current queue run and then
282 exits successfully.
283 Minor code formating cleanup and Install script
284 fixes.
285
286 2002-12-15 2.9b41 The Mixmaster protocol version is now prepended
287 to the software version in the Mixmaster cap-
288 string.
289 Minor configuration default changes and Install
290 script fixes.
291 Install script now always uses "make" and not
292 "gmake".
293 IDEA detection is fixed on systems that provide
294 the header files but then turn out to not
295 have the required functions upon linking.
296 Install now properly identifies system-wide
297 installations of pcre and/or zlib if they
298 are installed in /usr/local/.
299 Mixmaster will now ensure that an address
300 submitted in a blocking request does not
301 match that of a known remailer before
302 adding it to the dest.blk file (patch
303 submitted by Trek. Vulnerability originally
304 discovered by noise and rabbi.)
305 Minor documentation fixes.
306
307 2002-12-16 2.9b42 Minor documentation fixes.
308 Append another newline character to mbox folders
309 when storing a mail so that the mandatory empty
310 line is there.
311
312 2002-12-16 2.9.0rc1 Release candidate. Packaging changes only.
313
314 2002-12-25 2.9.0 Release version. Minor documentation changes
315 and version number change only.
316 [stable tree forks off]
317
318 2002-10-18 3.0a1 Applied Maildir feature patch by drt@un.bewaff.net,
319 with some changes by PP:
320 MAILBOX can now be a Maildir (closes: #586223).
321 Mixmaster in daemon mode reloads configuration on
322 SIGHUP.
323 The secret pgp keyring is now stored ASCII armored
324 with one key per ascii armor.
325 NB: Due to the bug with reading armored keyrings and
326 secring being stored armored now, it is not
327 advisable to downgrade Mixmaster unless special
328 action is taken to preserve the secret pgp
329 keyring.
330 Mixmaster now prompts for secret key passphrase when
331 started in daemon mode.
332 Mixmaster checks expiration and revocation status of
333 pgp keys, userids, and subkeys.
334 Mixmaster will not encrypt or sign with a revoked
335 or expired key.
336 When encrypting, Mixmaster uses preferences from
337 the primary userid (or the latest userid, if zero
338 or more than one primary userid is present.)
339 Mixmaster keys now have creation and expiration date.
340 It is not secured by any crypto voodoo, it's only
341 informational for clients to decide which keys to
342 use should they have more.
343 - on the client side we do not show remailers (and
344 therefore not use them) if their key is expired.
345 - the remailer refuses to decrypt messages to keys
346 that expired one month ago or earlier.
347 - the remailer automatically creates new Mixmaster
348 keys if the current ones are about to expire or
349 already are expired.
350 - the latest key from secring.mix is written to
351 key.txt. It used to be the first one. Since
352 creation of new mix key appends the key, this
353 seemed sensible.
354 Mixmaster now generates dummy messages automatically
355 as mail enters and exits the pool.
356
357 2002-xx-xx 3.0a2 New Star-Exclude feature by Colin Tuckley:
358 User-selected remailers can be excluded from
359 being chosen as random hops.
360 Have stats on intermediate vs. final hop count
361 (closes: #649900).
362
363 2003-05-03 3.0a4 Handle a pool we cannot read correctly: don't close
364 the NULL dir handle (segfaults on *bsd). We also
365 print a warning in that case now.
366 Add max capability for Type I.
367 Make sure DH/DSA param file is actually opened before
368 writing to it. Fixes a segfault in case it is not.
369 Fix a problem in blockrequest() where a buffer
370 could have been used after it was free()d which
371 resulted in segfaults.
372 Install script tweaks
373 Check that feedback buffer is not null before
374 operating on it in chain_select().
375 Closes #631353, thanks Sami Farin.
376 In order to serve help files in different languages
377 we need a way to reply to requests like
378 remailer-help-it. In order to not have to modify
379 the code for each and every new ressource,
380 Mixmaster now sends the file
381 requests/remailer-<something> to
382 remailer-<something> requests.
383 remailer-{help,key, stats,conf,adminkey} still are
384 special cases tho.
385 In the curses interface chain selection it was not
386 possible to select a random last hop with a usenet
387 post message. Fixed (closes: #719165).
388 If remix was enabled and we had a Type-I Anon-Post-To
389 request we accidently randhoped it via the
390 configured default remailing chain (default:
391 *,*,*,*).
392 Fixed (closes: #729494).
393 In client mode (REMAIL n) the pool is flushed every
394 time mixmaster is run unless CLIENTAUTOFLUSH is
395 set to n. (closes: #676794: Rate implementation
396 doubled)
397 Found that weird bug that sometimes led to "Unknown
398 remailer version!" errors: In chain_randfinal() we
399 selected a random value between 0 and maxrem instead
400 of 0 and maxrem - 1. Mixmaster now uses
401 broken-chain info from stats. I hope this doesn't
402 break any Nym functionality.
403 Warn if remailer stats are older than a day.
404
405 2003-05-08 3.0a5 Experimental feature: --redirect -l <chain>.
406 If you have a mixmaster message with a
407 chain starting with hop1 (you cannot know any
408 more because it already is encrypted) then
409 mix --redirect -l foo,bar < file
410 redirect the message so the chain is actually
411 foo,bar,hop1,... and places it in your pool.
412 If the total number of hops (which cannot be
413 known) exceeds 20 the message is damanged
414 and will fail at the 20th node.
415
416
417 2003-06-27 3.0a6 Don't send messages to ourselves via the mailsystem
418 but instead place them in the pool as incoming
419 messages so that they will get processed with the
420 next pool run.
421 Hopefully fix a bug with pool stats.
422
423 2003-06-29 3.0a7 Two minor fixes for bugs introduced in 3.0a6 and
424 3.0a4.
425
426 2003-06-30 3.0a8 Minor stats fix. The date in remailer-stats was
427 sometimes wrong.
428
429 2003-10-12 3.0a9 Don't try to send a message if there are no
430 recipients left.
431 Set default max-randhops from 20 to 4.
432 Remix-To chain is limited by max-randhops limit as
433 well.
434 Messages to more than one remailer are dropped.
435 Config option EXTFLAGS allows appending additional
436 flags to the capabilities string. (Hauke Lampe)
437 Config option PRECEDENCE allows setting the
438 Precedence: header on all outgoing mail.
439 (Hauke Lampe)
440 Nym support is not compiled in by default anymore.
441 Ignore 'No reliable remailers' problems when
442 randhopping messages in middleman mode.
443 That is better than dropping them.
444
445 2003-??-?? CVS Drop messages without timestamps and messages with
446 future timestamps. This abandons backwards
447 compatibility with mixmaster 2.0.3 and earlier.

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