-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 28 Sep 1996 Scottauge@aol.com wrote:
Already we are seeing problems for speech on the internet (see radikal postings - though they are a bit fruity IMHO.) And it sounds like the law in one country is going to be very interested in arresting people in another.
Hence, perhaps we need a crypto system (including human procedures and fail safes) for community discussions.
Crypto is very much one to one right now, but can we implement a crypto for wide distribution to a very defined set of people?
This should be useful in commerce too... like CC of mail to others, etc.
Problem Definition Time:
Who will be responsible for allowing a member into the community? (And all the other trust issues...)
This is one of the main problems with a system like this. It would be very hard to prove that a pseudonym isn't a fed. Rather than restricting communication to just a few people, everyone should be able to participate and use a nym. This would make arrests very difficult. I think it is inevitable that the communications would eventually be leaked to a TLA. You might want to look for information on PGPdomo. This does just about everything you've described. Mark - -- PGP encrypted mail prefered. Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMk1VRizIPc7jvyFpAQH5ZAf/bf1kW7gsKjukaRASrppEdqgJGkWYzwXt P+Rh2xfkR1pk9FW/7DZL3Q/OuRfYF/cdQw1qpic9ufaIkpaoA7enmoPk8V/rzGxy opTCfrobFtA6pEGAkxcz6DP+CRB18rBo9lklkneXrs1rfR1Pd4aK7XcOCAdze865 J527kjhKGkgKLonvjDw7hdkJk5z1ov9qetByJzB8lUbKXmrMD5nm5lA/in5uqkW3 ak4cYR3yFl4/IVG9Ng0Ht3RY4gw1U9lzFKnYNlCs40gZPGIkr9kCiMR7u/HQ9jpi T2C+JUr84Ab/C2Uj3xr0MMX7sU1o3g5sP63gEmp2AY5sz8+bWyE8zA== =X6zq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----