Echolot 2.1 released

[Peter Palfrader]

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Echolot 2.1 released
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Echolot 2.1 was released today.

This is a major feature release.  It includes automatic chain pinging
and collecting From lines.

Here is the relevant part from the NEWS file:

        * Chain pinging:  Echolot now finds broken chains.
          new options:
             - do_chainpings (default: 1)
               Whether to do chain pinging.
             - show_chainpings (default: 1)
               Whether to show the result of our chain pinging in the
               public stats.
           Several other settings control the details of chain pinging.
           You probably don't want or need to tweak them. See
           the pingd.conf(5) manual page for details.
           - Also adds the new "sendchainpings" command.
        * Compile a list of default From: lines as well as a list of
          remailers which allow user supplied From headers.
        * Append random garbage to pings so they have different
          lengths.
          new options:
            - random_gabage (default: 8192)
              Garbage length is chosen uniformly from 0 to random_gabage
              bytes.
            - dev_urandom (default: /dev/urandom)
              where to read garbage from (more generally: non-blocking
              (low-quality) randomless source)
        * Print status summary to log daily.
           - Also adds the new "summary" command.
        * Create an index.txt file in the thesaurus directory which
          holds id, nick, and address for each remailer in the thesaurus.
          This helps additional tools to utilize Echolot's data.
        * Reliable and CRLF - a neverending (sad) story.
        * Handle situations better in which a ping is received when the
          key already has been expired.
        * Minor documentation fixes suggested by Ryan Lackey.
        * Removed --pgp2 in CPunk RSA pings.
        * Adjusted some loglevels (several info got downgraded to debug)

Enjoy!

Echolot 2.1 can be downloaded from:
 http://savannah.gnu.org/download/echolot/echolot-2.1.tar.gz
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 http://savannah.gnu.org/download/echolot/echolot-2.1.tar.gz.asc
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About Echolot
=============

Echolot <http://www.palfrader.org/echolot/> is a pinger for anonymous
remailers.

A Pinger in the context of anonymous remailers is a program that
regularly sends messages through remailers to determine their status.
Based on the responses, the Pinger calculates reliability statistics
which may be used by remailer clients to choose a chain of remailers to
use.

Furthermore, Echolot collects configuration parameters and keys of
remailers and offers the collected information in a format readable by
remailer clients.  This helps reduce the administration effort required
to use or host remailers.


Contact Information
===================

For further information, please visit the Echolot web page at
<http://www.palfrader.org/echolot/> or send mail to
<echolot-users@lists.noreply.org> or <peter@palfrader.org>.
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