One of the pioneers of modern civilian cryptography, Ian Goldberg, cofounded a company in Canada to provide secure and anonymous Internet access to the world. He started the company in Canada to prevent American crypto laws from interfering significantly with his company's right to export cryptographic code to other nations. The company, Zero Knowledge Systems (ZKS), currently has one product: Freedom. Freedom, when installed on a user's PC, allows the user completely anonymous, secure access to web pages, email, or IRC.Freedom works in a similar fashion to the Mixmaster systems mentioned earlier; several dozen machines around the world run Freedom's proprietary Freedom Server, most of which are run by independent non-governmental entities that are paid by ZKS for the use of their equipment. Your computer then picks three machines to route through; every packet is "envelope encrypted" with A, B, and C's keys and routed through the three machines. Responses follow the reverse path. This allows for completely anonymous Internet access; unless servers A, B, and C all conspire to reveal your entity nobody can know who you are. For $100 a year, ZKS will give you the right to create three "nyms," or anonymous pseudonyms, through which you can access the Net, send and receive email, and so forth.