On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:03:29PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
On 17 Oct 2000, Anonymous wrote:
Pipe the message into GPG and test the output on STDERR.
There was some perl code posted to the list not too long ago which does this.
So, now everyone has to use GPG. Why? How do you propose to answer the increased attacks on the protocol now that you've made it the monopoly?
I thought the point of anonymous remailers and commen crypto was to enhance liberty rather than enforce (coerce) another standard.
. This is nonsense. GPG would in this situation not have a monopoly any more (and in fact less) than SMTP or FTP would be. Many free market economists believe there is no such thing as a monopoly sans government intervention. Even if they're wrong, it is silly to describe protocols not owned by one entity as a monopoly. (Who has the "monopoly power," for purposes of legal analysis, for instance?) The point of anonymous remailers and commonly-used crypto varies depending on to whom you speak, but there are worse answers than protecting liberty. And those who defend it know that coercion is done by someone holding a gun to your head, not by someone suggestion a protocol on a mailing list. But of course this is Jim Choate. -Declan