-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 9 Nov 1996 SUCRUM22_at_INDY-ADP@smtp-gw.cv62.navy.mil wrote:
i am your average joe who uses the computer for work and e-mail and the occasional jaunt into the internet. going along reading this whole crypto-anarchy thing makes me want to cry. the whole point of cryptography is getting info from my eyes to yours. period. you can say that "illegal" information passes along the internet, but hello people - illegalities have been going on since long before the invention of the computer (or even the notion of cryptography - if i may stop to point out the obvious). the only reason _i_ use encrypted stuff is because i don't want my nosy sysadmin reading my mail. its that simple. think about it. how many times is your
Plain cryptography isn't the main point. The protocols (such as anonymous digital cash, message pools, DC-nets, etc.) allow things to exist that are not possible without cryptography. These protocols make laws (especially victimless laws) much more difficult to enforce.
e-mail handed off? when sent it naturally follows the most convenient path to its destination, and even anonymous re-mailers (can) keep a hard copy of the messages that cross their connections with the original address included. you can go off into spoofing address and so on, but your average joe may (or may not) have the time or knowledge (much less the motivation) to do that. keep that in mind before you go saying that crypto is a good/bad thing.
In order for anonymous remailers to be completely anonymous, only one remailer in the chain has to be trustworthy. If a message is chained through N remailers and N-1 of those remailers are run by spooks, the anonymity of the message depends on the remaining remailer. Mark - -- finger -l for PGP key PGP encrypted mail prefered. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMoTlLyzIPc7jvyFpAQEXGQf/VN8uNK7+uUWdNqcip2dHkPVFLjZlItBf dcilb36/zBJikX1XIOHbk15X/s4N/bM1WfAAYqPikI7jfcVkbxw0j0gTwVTYY1Wu AbbdAh1o47CYe55eqEhcirfQQEMMHaZ/7DXKj+mdDeBWACZqHbOmx25spChH0fi+ 3i3AhF23kBNxb4H/MNLTA9Fb6mzGsGsXmzDEJHnVPxQQG8uUQcBd6qVkBdLu05++ YYV60gr2vXb5LCLgIbhzT3Q/pFC2k2wkh9Wn+V+FgU1SwJleMWNOcY1nuU4ylND4 EncDq44AlWpt54fzu96saOz1DZgczyTaLnM2ZktywsH43WQ00eVw8A== =7FDt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----