Bruce Baugh writes:

I'm almost certainly going to be changing my address in the next few weeks. I'd like to keep the same nym account. Can someone take a stab at explaining how to feed the relevant info to C2?

I'm very interested in figuring out how to refine the user instructions for Matt's pseudonymizer at alpha, and similar anonymity/pseudonymity systems. Let me quote what I think are the relevant parts of Matt's standard instructions, without further comment from me for now. Please point out anywhere you see a gap or something confusing so we can figure out how to improve the instructions. (I'm quoting from the Oct.1, 1995 version at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/alpha-help.html --- mailto:help@alpha.c2.org for the current version) <QUOTE> To create a mail alias, first create an encrypted reply-block for a cypherpunk-style remailer. An encrypted reply block is a message encrypted with a remailer's PGP public key, which will be sent to your address, or to an address where you can receive messages. To create a reply block, you would create a message for a remailer that goes back to you: :: Request-Remailing-To: you@yoursite.org Then you would encrypt that with a remailer's public key, and prepend the necessary Encrypted: PGP header. When this message is received by a remailer, it would decrypt it and send it to you. It would also send you any text appended to the end (outside the PGP wrapper). Thus, using a reply block, it is possible for people to send you mail without knowing your real address. Next, choose a pseudonym and a password. The pseudonym-address may contain any alphabetical or numeric characters, or hyphens. The password may not contain any spaces. Then create a message of the following format: From: yourname@alpha.c2.org Password: Your_Password Reply-Block: :: Anon-To: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl :: Encrypted: PGP -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.3a hIwC/nqSW1QDQfUBBACknZMV93wFS2CH0orlgslmEm+alhjI1eKwbbTTmeRWC5Rg /S3vZw+95ZuCZfqxKE0XrgZXzOEwfoyBcpVvf9Pb9D19TqEMTmmL/Jpl1xcxmbJ2 OGsHpQ/TxpazBCVhdBmPblj5wWvwfG1+ZKpIkQ5hiLJhryQM/TUDarEscs3zdaYA AAB5231aMcQ74AKoDZizABMF3Tw+olV4mm4jVo9cMn2B3Rj2XBFl4pV9VL3h0ZQB cPY/ytBRyZPugr0NpLgjO+q6mEjCcgQrxpYQ+1PvFPdDx1GmJ5ogZqW+AVHsNqAp vRoiG8ZhXs4r3E8liFsNtMMf6CUAsdV2ZoX1Hw== =Bla3 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- Do not actually indent it. It is indented here because some people's mailers try to auto-decrypt PGP messages and this is just an example. Encrypt this with the following public key and mail it to alias@alpha.c2.org. Unencrypted mail sent to this address will be deleted automatically. If everything is correct, your mail alias will be created, and you will be sent a confirmation. If not, there will be no way for the software to reply to you, so the message will be deleted. If you don't receive anything, something is wrong, so try again. Be sure to test the reply block first, so that you will know it works! Also, don't forget to include the address of the remailer, and the Encrypted: PGP header at the beginning of your reply block. Sending in a new reply-block replaces the old one. To change your reply-block, just send a new one, using the same format as the above message. </QUOTE> Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>