On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, John Galt wrote:
Cypherpunks is archived? Isn't that against what most cypherpunks stand for? I know it sets up a "style fingerprint" attack against anonymity...
Do you imagine for an instant that a list like this could go out, be available to anonymous people, and *NOT* be archived? I guarantee various interested parties including Law Enforcement Agencies are archiving it, and would be whether or not anyone else did and whether or not any public archives were available. In fact, I'm betting that their archives are more complete than the ones on the web, and I wish we could restore some stuff from those records that's gotten lost from the web archives. In particular, I designed a digital-cash protocol once and discussed it on this list, and it's not in the web archives. I'd like to have that back, it would save me some design work when I go to implement it. We can't stop anybody who gets cypherpunks from archiving it. We can't stop anybody from getting cypherpunks. QED, there *are* archives. Some of them might as well be public. Occasionally they are useful, or contain worthwhile URL's. Bear