Prof. TruthMonger wrote:
Tim May wrote:
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At 3:16 AM -0700 9/22/97, Wei Dai wrote:
One of Tim's suggested cypherpunk projects is to encourage the use of digital pseudonyms (i.e. cryptographically persistent entities not linked with True Names).
Like TruthMonger!
That cypherpunk project came to fruition a year and a half ago. My moderation bot STUMP, available for free download at my Web Site http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov, actively supports pseudonymous posters who identify themselves with PGP.
When I see a piece of email sent to the cypherpunks list from an anonymous remailer, I typically delete it without reading, because there is no easy way to tell between anynoymous email (which are typically junk) and pseudonymous email, and there is no easy way to filter by pseudonym.
STUMP rewrites the From: field for pseudonymous letters, substituting the From: field to the user ID in the PGP key.
I'm planning to make more serious use of pseudonyms, digitally signed. Despite what LD used to claim about my use of "tentacles," it was simply too much trouble to do the elaborate cut-and-paste of using PGP 1.9, 2.7. 2.85, etc. for my Amiga.
Well, if Mr. Cryptography himself finds it too much trouble to use cryptography, then I guess it shows how lame the efforts are of the CypherPunks who complain that Joe Sheeple doesn't use it, either.
I have had great success with people who never used PGP and then started using it to sign pseudonymous articles (like Prof. CBI-admin@...).
To this end, this message is being signed. With my new PGP 5.6 key. Signed by my old (really, really, old) 1989 key.
This ought to ensure that you won't be the target of forgeries in your name, or scum who misquote and/or twist your words.
STUMP does that and more. Interestingly, rec.martial-arts.moderated, which also uses my bot, went even farther than soc.culture.russian.moderated and now requires all anonymous users to sign their posts with PGP -- in essense making them pseudonymous. I was a bit surprised initially, but do not mind it as long as anyone can post anonymously. - Igor.