-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- If you signed your messages on a regular basis, it would let me know whether or not you're the same Tim May, I've been reading since back when toad.com was the only server for the list. If you're key was signed by anyone I've dealt with, who I know will actually check your id, it would increase my confidence that you really are Tim May, and not just a net persona. It doen't make one iota of difference, whether you choose to distribute your key or not. Your ideas are usually thought provoking, and consistent enough to form a persona in the minds of the list readers. Or at least, in mine. I know you know (whether or not you agree) with the above. It just struck me as humourous that you'd sign the post, with the comment to the effect that there isn't much point in doing so, with a key that isn't on the servers. Do you see the PGP web of trust as completly useless? As to who I am, well... I'm a programmer, living in London, Ont. Canada. I've been lurking, off and on, since 94 or so. I don't think I've actually posted anything to the list since back in 96, when I wrote a freeware program to simplify using PGP with dos based offline mail readers (MPI.ZIP). While I normally promote privacy issues, only with those I meet face to face, I still consider myself a cypherpunk. I normally only post to the list, when my point of view isn't being expressed by any of the regular posters. Regards, Dave Hodgins. Tim May wrote:

On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 06:14 PM, David W. Hodgins wrote:

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The advantages really disappear, when the key used to sign the message isn't sent to the key servers {:.

Those who need to know, know.

You, I've never seen before. Even if you found my key at the Liberal Institution of Technology, what would it mean?

Parts of the PGP model are ideologically brain-dead. I attribute this to left-wing peacenik politics of some of the early folks.

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