At 12:38 AM 10/11/95 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:

Nope. au contraire, negatory. I *do not* care if the entity calling itself "Hal Finney" is being surrounded by an MITM. Only "Hal Finney the Key" can read messages I encrypt to the public key I got from him long ago, so if the "Hal + MITM" can do so, they are effectively one and the same.

Not a new problem BTW as in the old joke: "The Iliad wasn't written by Homer but by another guy of the same name." For the non-classically inclined, this is a joke because we don't really know anything about Homer anyway. Maybe he was a blind poet. Maybe he never existed. DCF "Who wonders why his local B&N StuporStore has 1/2 of one section of one shelf unit dedicated to classics and shelf unit upon shelf unit dedicated to the gender-disabled, to women, to native americans, to new age mysticism, and other garbage. Particularly since those interest areas represent the losers. Who's interested in losers? (We know they're losers BTW because we're *reading* about them in a capitalist store. If they'd won there'd be no reading and no store."