Of course, the paranoid amonsgt us now believe that Mr. Back wrote the code, and is engaging in a little misdirection below. "Thanks for making the analysis easy!" ;) On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:11:15PM +0100, Adam Back wrote: | Very nice. | | Nice plausible set of candidate authors also: | | pub 1022/5AC7B865 1992/12/01 loki@obscura.com | pub 1024/2B48F6F5 1996/04/10 Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu> | pub 1024/97558A1D 1994/01/10 Pr0duct Cypher <alt.security.pgp> | pub 1024/2719AF35 1995/05/13 Ben Laurie <ben@gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk> | pub 1024/58214C37 1992/09/08 Hal Finney <74076.1041@compuserve.com> | pub 1024/C8002BD1 1997/03/04 Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com> | pub 1024/FBBB8AB1 1994/05/07 Colin Plumb <colin@nyx.cs.du.edu> | | Wonder if we can figure out who is most likely author based on coding | style from such a small set. | | It has (8 char) TABs but other wise BSD indentation style (BSD | normally 4 spaces). Also someone who likes triply indirected pointers | ***blah in there. Has local variables inside even *if code blocks* | eg, inside main() (most people avoid that, preferring to declare | variables at the top of a function, and historically I think some | older gcc / gdb couldn't debug those variables if I recall). Very | funky use of goto in getpgppkt, hmmm. Somewhat concise coding and | variable names. | | Off the cuff guess based on coding without looking at samples of code | to remind, probably Colin or Ian. | | Of course (Lance Cottrell/Ian Goldberg/Pr0duct Cypher/Ben Laurie/Hal | Finney/Eric Young/Colin Plumb) possibly deviated or mimicked one of | their coding styles. Kind of interesting to see a true nym in there | also. | | Also the Cc -- Coderpunks lives? I think the Cc coderpunks might be a | clue also, I think some of these people would know it died. I think | that points more at Colin. | | Other potential avenue might be implementation mistake leading to | failure of the scheme to robustly make undecidable which of the set is | the true author, given alpha code. | | Adam | | On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:52:56AM +0000, Anonymous User wrote: | > This program can be used by anonymous contributors to release partial | > information about their identity - they can show that they are someone | > from a list of PGP key holders, without revealing which member of the | > list they are. Maybe it can help in the recent controvery over the | > identity of anonymous posters. It's a fairly low-level program that | > should be wrapped in a nicer UI. I'll send a couple of perl scripts | > later that make it easier to use. | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume