Replies go to remailer site, where message is forwarded to the intended recipient, with the replier s return address removed. Good Uses and Bad Anonymity provides protection against retaliation and embarrassment. Many can benefit from a forum where they can talk candidly without giving away their identity. Anonymous remailer services can be used for criminal and antisocial purposes. The strong arguments for and against anonymity if different circumstances suggest that it should not be illegal.
Policies can be flexible, diverse, and adapted to a particular service and clientele.
Arguments for a legal prohibition is that the potential for harm is great enough to outweigh the inconvenience to honest people who would use anonymity responsibly The First Amendment and Cryptography Efforts of NSA to restrict the availability of strong cryptography are being challenged as violations of the First Amendment. The government has ruled that disks containing algorithms in a book cannot be exported. Government is using a distinction of technology to determine where the First Amendment applies. Although government has not been as aggressive as before in suppressing printed information on cryptography, it still has legal power to do so. Cryptography researcher Daniel Bernstein filed suit against the government to challenge its power to restrict publication.