A fair number of cpunks subscribers hid their true names from the gitgo. The gitgo varied among subscribers, with most of the earliest using what seemed to be true names but who knows for sure who is. As the list infame grew there were more of those hiding identity. And deploying deeper levels of hide from lessons learned from the list and other sources about how hidden identities are tracked and faked and misrepresented and packaged alluringly as foolproof protection. Then there were strategies and strategems to become more wily and more deceptive, one being the advocacy of open sources in order to gull the gullible into revealing themselves and their hides. No doubt the wily knew this ploy and pretended to be open while asymmetrically siphoning far more then offered, the model used by official and business spies and intimate lovers. The rigged jury is still out on whether public key crypto was a grand deception, if not wittingly by the inventors, then by those who would benefit from widespread faith in its trustworthiness. Mindful that the most successful mindfucks work best against the smartest people who cannot conceive of being oufoxed by those they consider to be the dumbest. I always liked PZ's "pretty good" candor for its understated corniness. Nothing absolutely reliable over the top bullshit like those who have tried to market it as The Best Ever. Symantec will probably sell it back to him to cleanse its besmeared trust. What will become of all those archived PGP PKs capable of tracking and cracking SKs? What, you had not heard of that?