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Regardless, the greater problem is transparency of operation. Once that is accomplished, it will be a trivial matter for forged usenet posts to be rebuked by readers realtime.
I was talking to a definite non-cypherpunk friend of mine today, and he and I came up with something that might help some Mac users with pgp... The way we were thinking about it is that in your pgp directory, er, folder, you would have several Icons in adition to pgp it'sself. One would be a picture of a lock, with the name "encrypt" and to encrypt a file you simply "pick up" the file and "drag" it over to "drop" it on the encrypt icon. Poof, encrypted file is produced (sure it would ask for passwords and stuff, and it would ask first who to encrypt it to, with the users own pubkey the default. Another Icon would be a picture of a key with the word decrypt, any cyphertext file droped on it would be decrypted. Another one would be a picture of a fountain pen with the name 'sign', yet another would be a magnifying glass over a piece of paper to 'examine sig' or whatever (yes you nit-pickers, I know that functionaly the decrypt and the sig check are like identicle, but the users have a hard time understanding that sometimes.) The point is that someone with some knowledge of macintosh programing hopefully can create what in unix would be a link to the pgp program, whereby it would just call pgp with certain options enabled depending on what name you called it under... Happy Hunting, -Chris ______________________________________________________________________________ Christian Douglas Odhner | "The NSA can have my secret key when they pry cdodhner @ indirect.com | it from my cold, dead, hands... But they shall pgp 2.3 public key by finger | NEVER have the password it's encrypted with!" cypherpunks WOw dCD Traskcom Team Stupid Key fingerprint = 58 62 A2 84 FD 4F 56 38 82 69 6F 08 E4 F1 79 11 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A government mandante for key-escrow encryption in all communication devices would be the information-age equivalent of the government requiring private citizens to quarter troups in their home. --David Murray PGP NSA ViaCrypt Phrack EFF #hack LOD/H 950 FBI MindVox ESN KC NUA murder QSD Hacker DEFCON SprintNet MCI AT&T HoHoCon DNIC TRW CBI 5ESS KGB CIA RSA Communist terrorist assassin encrypt 2600 NORAD missile explosive hack phreak pirate drug bomb cocain payment smuggle A.P. bullets semi-auto stinger revolution H.E.A.T. warheads porno kiddiesex export import customs deviant bribe corrupt White House senator congressman president Clinton Gore bootleg assasinate target ransom secret bluprints prototype microfilm agents mole mafia hashish everclear vodka TnaOtmSc Sony marijuana pot acid DMT Nixon yeltsin bosnia zimmerman crack knight-lightning craig neidorf lex luthor kennedy pentagon C2 cheyenne cbx telnet tymenet marcus hess benson & hedges kuwait saddam leader death-threat overlords police hitler furer karl marx mark tabas agrajag king blotto blue archer eba the dragyn unknown soldier catch-22 phoenix project biotech genetic virus clone ELINT intercept diplomat explosives el salvador m-16 columbia cartel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLdXaS+Kc9MdneB1xAQHRbQP+NDe9gRMdNPDW/Hp/QV8TzV+m++LwKwrI r9OVM8ayhxYsTCH4ML4dQRPI4IwArbGkPHOul5aF8CFlthMvzcmLIwmv9zPZMAmC 7enswtYVTx55Oooy5sEfc23dX360ZkajqaelxyvHAodz5WD3Cx4tKLRU8GQS00PX l/+v4e5CFeo= =XS9D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----