-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- stewarts@ix.netcom.com said:
which is a mixed blessing.) Also, there are several Supreme Court cases, such as McIntyre vs. Ohio, that strongly uphold the right to anonymous
I envy the constitutional protections you have. We have no such protections and courts have found no right of free speech exists in Australia (ie if the High Court was correct of course). I'm assuming McIntyres case was a constitutional challenge.
One obvious implementation of identification would of course be a Key Management Infrastructure... They might not do it, not only because it would require everyone to change their email programs, but more seriously because it would require everyone to use encryption-capable mailers (or at least signature-capable), and even with 40-bit escrowed mail, it makes eavesdropping much more work.
Also if that did come to pass the casual user would become much more interested in crypto and probably ask why his crypto-enabled mailer was dum-ed down. Hmmmm...interesting. Somehow I think the gubmint would be very wary of such a possibility; but who knows. Comment for the list copy of this mail: (Just on the matter of mailers, for anyone running X take a look at exmh if you haven't already. This gives a nice graphical interface and pgp is integrated into it making reading/writing encrypted mail as simple as clicking a button. Combine it with xemacs and you have a very powerful email system. Pegasus for Win95, and I think Win3.1 is a freeware mailer for which a freeware add-on for pgp integration is available) -- .////. .// Charles Senescall apache@bear.apana.org.au o:::::::::/// PGP mail preferred apache@quux.apana.org.au
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