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  20th Anniversary of OmniMix OmniMixer <omnimixer@somewhere.invalid> - 2026-03-31 22:21 +0200
    Re: 20th Anniversary of OmniMix Mr Anderson <Agent@Matrix.org> - 2026-03-31 20:29 +0000
      Re: 20th Anniversary of OmniMix Anonymous User <noreply@dirge.harmsk.com> - 2026-03-31 18:26 -0400
    Re: 20th Anniversary of OmniMix Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202604.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2026-04-01 02:48 +0200
      Re: 20th Anniversary of OmniMix Yamn3 Remailer <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2026-04-01 04:04 +0100
      Re: 20th Anniversary of OmniMix Anonymous <nobody@yamn.paranoici.org> - 2026-04-01 19:05 +0000
    Re: 20th Anniversary of OmniMix Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2026-04-02 10:39 +0200

#1029 — 20th Anniversary of OmniMix

  Two decades ago we got the first prerelease of OmniMix,
  the Swiss army knife of anonymous e-mail communication,
  the allround champ, still unbeaten, still going strong!


: From: Christian Danner <christian@danner-net.de>
: Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server
: Subject: OmniMix - Mixmaster Gateway for Windows - Proof of Concept
: Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:25:29 +0200
: Message-ID: <k53p22h3rprdca226h0plo8cd6arahd9fb@4ax.com>
: 
: OmniMix 0.90 (31 Mar 2006)
: ==========================
: 
: http://www.danner-net.de/omnimix/omnimix090.zip
: 
: Please consider before you continue reading:
: OmniMix currently is nothing more that a proof of concept. It is in an
: early state of development (see 'Some important issues' below). The
: lack of a similar solution for Windows users causes me to publish this
: tiny better-than-nothing tool, which worked well for my needs for a
: longer time, reserving the right to uncover the source code later on.
: I refuse responsibility for any damage or data loss that might be
: connected with the usage of this program.
: 
: 
: For Windows users OmniMix is a gateway to the Mixmaster world.
: 
: To the side of your mail / news client it works as an SNTP / NNTP
: server. The messages it receives are immediately transformed to a
: mail, which, in the case of a news message, can be processed by a
: mail2news service, then encrypted to mixmaster format, actually using
: mixmaster 2.0. The resulting mail is afterwards posted by the
: implemented SMTP client (via a secure SSL connection - if supported by
: your ISP). If there occur any errors in the course of one of these
: steps, they are reported to the waiting mail / news client, which then
: reserves the message for further retrials. Only if OmniMix succeeds in
: sending the message to your ISP, it gives a 'mission completed' state
: back to your client, which one therefore keeps full control of the
: data until they are delivered to your ISP. No caching within the
: Mixmaster or OmniMix system!
: 
: OmniMix consists of only one .exe file, which generates an .ini file
: at its place. It neither mixes up your system (environment variables,
: registry etc.), nor does it require additional software besides Indy
: specific SSL DLLs (libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll). Those are available
: at http://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/indy_OpenSSL096m.zip and have to be put
: into the OmniMix folder. Existing Mixmaster installations are not
: influenced.
: 
: Start OmniMix, change the settings at the left side of the window and
: - if online - click on 'Update Statistics' to get the latest remailer
: data and statistics stored into the Mixmaster directory. Your ISP's
: password is encrypted before being stored into the .ini file. But
: recognize, that this is not bullet proof, as anyone might be able to
: find the DES key somewhere hidden in OmniMix!
: 
: To integrate OmniMix into your system, you only have to reconfigure
: your news client, so that it posts your news to 'localhost'
: (127.0.0.1) and the port specified within OmniMix (default 119).
: OmniMix isn't able to offer a list of the newsgroups available, so you
: have to set in your news client's posting preferences not to use only
: servers known to carry the group (e.g. in Forté Agent 3 you find this
: option in the 'Properties for Folders').
: 
: OmniMix adds a 'om' directory to the folder where Mixmaster resides.
: This is the place where the temporary files used for Mixmaster
: interaction are stored. OmniMix has to have read/write access to this
: directory!
: 
: The client communication bases on a multithreading model, so there
: should be no harm in accessing OmniMix by several clients at the same
: time. But I didn't do any stress testing yet.
: 
: 
: Some important issues:
: 
: - OmniMix requires good old Mixmaster 2.0 for DOS (developed with
: v2.0.4b46, to be found at
: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mixmaster/mix204b46.zip), since
: this currently is the only version, which allows output of the
: encrypted message to a file. But on the other hand it doesn't accept
: command line arguments which sum up to more than 118 characters -
: including the address of the Mail2News gateway and the list of
: remailers to be used, which however would have to be of extreme length
: to reach the limit. In this case you find an according entry in the
: Log list (which as well as the other lists is limited to the 2000 most
: recent lines). Please notice, that with ancient Mixmaster 2.0 the
: single remailers have to be separated by spaces, not commas, and 'any'
: has to be represented by a '0' (number zero), not an asterisk.
: 
: - IMPORTANT: For data exchange with Mixmaster the original message is
: stored to disk and may be recoverable with special tools! If future
: Mixmaster versions don't allow complete in-memory communication, a
: (nearly) secure erase function will have to be built into OmniMix. A
: better choice would be to set up an encrypted partition with a tool
: like TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/).
: 
: - OmniMix does not yet support any encryption of the client side
: communication, nor does it natively use Tor to deliver the resulting
: mail to an ISP.
: 
: - The extension of NewsMix to OmniMix, meaning the additional
: implementation of mail support, happened just the other day. So there
: might still be some serious bugs (besides not delivering to Cc: and
: Bcc: addresses). Feel free to catch them. They are all yours. But in
: that case I would be pleased about your feedback.
: 
: 
: Copyright © 2006 Christian Danner <christian<at>danner-net<dot>de>.
: All rights reserved.
: 
: OmniMix was developed using Borland Delphi and the Indy 10 components.
: 
: The mentioned company, product, and service names may be trademarks or
: service marks of others.
: 
: 
: Christian Danner <christian<at>danner-net<dot>de>
: PGP key available at http://www.danner-net.de/index/danner.asc

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#1031

>Two decades ago we got the first prerelease of OmniMix
>

It's not safe as you have to use windows "spyware" software
in order to use it. So you better watch out for client side
scanning. Windows is just a very very bad idea!

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#1038

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:29:51 +0000, Mr Anderson wrote:

>>Two decades ago we got the first prerelease of OmniMix

Happy birthday from Spain! You created a marvelous tool!

>>
>
>It's not safe as you have to use windows "spyware" software
>in order to use it. So you better watch out for client side
>scanning. Windows is just a very very bad idea!

You're boring. Then run it on an offline computer or within an
isolated VM or Linux Wine dependent on your level of paranoia.

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#1041

OmniMixer <omnimixer@somewhere.invalid> wrote:

>  Two decades ago we got the first prerelease of OmniMix,
>  the Swiss army knife of anonymous e-mail communication,
>  the allround champ, still unbeaten, still going strong!

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 Continue your fight for free speech!  We're with you!

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#1042

On 31 Mar 2026, Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-
202604.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> posted:

> OmniMixer <omnimixer@somewhere.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>  Two decades ago we got the first prerelease of OmniMix,
>>  the Swiss army knife of anonymous e-mail communication,
>>  the allround champ, still unbeaten, still going strong!
> 
>          ~                  ~
>    *                   *                *       *
>                 *               *
> ~       *                *         ~    *
>             *       ~        *              *   ~
>                 )         (         )              *
>   *    ~     ) (_)   (   (_)   )   (_) (  *
>          *  (_) # ) (_) ) # ( (_) ( # (_)       *
>             _#.-#(_)-#-(_)#(_)-#-(_)#-.#_
> *         .' #  # #  #  # # #  #  # #  # `.   ~     *
>       *  | `-.__                     __.-' | *
>          |      `````"""""""""""`````      |         *
>    *     |         | ||\ |~)|~)\ /         |
>          |         |~||~\|~ |~  |          |       ~
>  ~   *   |                                 | *
>          |      |~)||~)~|~| ||~\|\ \ /     |         *
>  *    _.-|      |~)||~\ | |~|| /|~\ |      |-._
>     .'   '.      ~            ~           .'   `.  *
>      `.         `````"""""""""""`````         .'
>        `-.._                             _..-'
>             `````""""-----------""""`````
> 
>  Continue your fight for free speech!  We're with you!

Great products last!  Thanks OmniMix!

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#1059

Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202604.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
wrote:
>OmniMixer <omnimixer@somewhere.invalid> wrote:
>
>>  Two decades ago we got the first prerelease of OmniMix,
>>  the Swiss army knife of anonymous e-mail communication,
>>  the allround champ, still unbeaten, still going strong!
>
>         ~                  ~
>   *                   *                *       *
>                *               *
>~       *                *         ~    *
>            *       ~        *              *   ~
>                )         (         )              *
>  *    ~     ) (_)   (   (_)   )   (_) (  *
>         *  (_) # ) (_) ) # ( (_) ( # (_)       *
>            _#.-#(_)-#-(_)#(_)-#-(_)#-.#_
>*         .' #  # #  #  # # #  #  # #  # `.   ~     *
>         :   #    #  #  #   #  #  #    #   :
>  ~      :.       #     #   #     #       .:      *
>      *  | `-.__                     __.-' | *
>         |      `````"""""""""""`````      |         *
>   *     |         | ||\ |~)|~)\ /         |
>         |         |~||~\|~ |~  |          |       ~
> ~   *   |                                 | *
>         |      |~)||~)~|~| ||~\|\ \ /     |         *
> *    _.-|      |~)||~\ | |~|| /|~\ |      |-._
>    .'   '.      ~            ~           .'   `.  *
>    :      `-.__                     __.-'      :
>     `.         `````"""""""""""`````         .'
>       `-.._                             _..-'
>            `````""""-----------""""`````
>
> Continue your fight for free speech!  We're with you!

+2^63 - Many thanks and warm regards.

I once used Omnimix for whistle-blowing, but meanwhile I
can no longer imagine my dailu mail workflow without it.

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#1071

>   Two decades ago we got the first prerelease of OmniMix,
>   the Swiss army knife of anonymous e-mail communication,
>   the allround champ, still unbeaten, still going strong!
>

Wonderful software.

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