S.Boxx:
<sigh> nobody is interested in preventing pseudospoofing here. the people who have most maneuvered themselves into a position to aid future cyberspace are instead constraining it. that's the point, isn't it? gosh, how could I have been so blind...
T.C.May:
I think its because we don't see pseudospoofing as a "danger" like you do. Personally, I consider it a necessity. I like being able to hide behind an anonymous identity (not that I do, mind you). I don't see pseudospoofing as "constraining". On the contrary, I see it as freeing us.
E.Hughes, on Pseudospoofing software
No the software isn't mine, but I consider myself it's God Father. Tim May and I were talking about this a long time, and he just beat me to learning enough PERL to write the thing. But I'd like to think that the two of us did most all of the design of it. So, in a way, it is my software.
Nick Szabo:
As an example, look at Ender's Game, where Ender's brother and sister get on the net under pseudonyms, and get treated just like everyone else. There is no biases. People are judged on their actions and words, not by who they are, how old they are, what they look like, or anything like that. Maybe you are blind, I don't know. I've never met you.
Arthur Chandler:
And, as I said, it is not the job of the Keyserver to provide any sort of policy. The job of the Keyserver is to distribute keys. Nothing more. Nothing less. The job of identifying True Names is solely a job for Digital Signatures, not a job for the Keyserver.
Jamie Dinkelacker:
I oppose using it in a bogus fashion because the software is not designed for such a use, there is absolutely no protection for it (any key can be added), because I, and all the other Keyserver admins, believe that all the keyservers should be interconnected, and because I feel the job for determining a True Name on a key is a job for Digital Signatures, not for the Keyserver.
Perry Metzger:
I am a cypherpunk. I don't believe in trusting something on faith alone, but you seem to be asking for that. There is no way to protect such a reckless use of the Keyserver. The only way to provide a secure way for True Names is to Cryptographically identify them.
Hal Finney:
So, Mr. Detweiler, why do you oppose using Digital Signatures to verify True Names? I mean, besides that you consider yourself a Cypherpunk? ;-)