Thus spake Thoth:
Tim May wrote:
at least use a digitally-signed pseudonym, so we can know we're talking to the same person.
Done! I will be "thoth", keyid AFB8AB41.
Congratulatons, now your words, wherever they come from, will likely carry more weight, especially as your rep increases (or it could decrease...). By the way, for the other people who claimed I never use the tools I advocate, I *am* BlackNet. This is not a secret, but not everyone may know I created the key pair used to communicate with BlackNet, at least the original one (someone else created at least one additional BlackNet, spoofed the creation date so as to appear earlier than _my_ BN key, and spread the key around to the standard key servers! Hilarious!).
Perhaps my apparent frustration is caused by the fact that I've become convinced that crypto-anarchy will not come to pass (I posted a lenghtly scenario earlier of that I think the future will be like).
I read that. No time to reply, yet. I think well-written scenarios like that are very useful. You may even be right.
I think that writing and thinking is the only thing any of us can do that will have impact. The only coding effort I can see paying off is helping to make PGP better. Maybe that's what I'll do.
Thoth
I'm not very pessimistic, actually. So long as I don't try to change the world by force-fitting a solution, things will eventually evolve in interesting directions. Given strong crypto, certain things seem almost inevitable. Trying to commercialize too early may be a bad idea, though...sort of like herding cats, as the saying goes. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."