-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Daniel 'genius' Charpentier <drcharpe@hamlet.uncg.edu> wrote:

he mentioned his desire to see more cryptographic program code and I didn't want to see this initiative die. I am a new commer to cryptography and I know I shouldn't be posting yet but that is what I thought cypherpunk postings was supposed to be in the first place ( program code, protocols, and algorithms ). Please don't flame me to badly for this message. I am doing everything I am supposed to before posting ( reading the FAQ's, the entire cypherpunk archive, and APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY by Bruce Schneier )

It sounds like you are afraid of getting a negative reputation. Well don't be. Simply create a persistent pseudonym and sign your messages with it instead. That way, if it turns out that everyone disagrees with you and/or flames you to death, you can simply disgard your old pseudonym. Otherwise you keep your pseudonym and continue to post under it. This technique is not new, so you may already have seen it in the archive. Logically, a pseudonym is simply a public key. However you may want to give it a human-readable name so other people may more easily refer to it. If you decide to do this, I suggest that you do not name the key on its first post because there is a high probability that you will decide to disgard the key. If you name it and throw it away, then you have unnecessarily cluttered up the limited name space. - a new entity, as yet unnamed - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMK5/P42Fr67QcvwZAQGVdwP5AaE5MR8JztPBv1k/0GdVlZSzuBBMboRW d7Ofyw2EloKS7YTgb+ZoGDT92h+n5Yzpp5Jb5+0zm8iDLQbm0RTQJxE86Ty4DrO4 5w1CUCSa8VF4mTVoRvyaYrWHTq4uxOj4LAPC6Zxx5qIPUSRgceWoYsmEoarIYYLU FEhnF34o5m0= =T80R - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzCuftgAAAEEAL35udZ/l0s590SjtzSM9eAepxAGe9Mp38ZoTsvfmNQh008W sLtiYKmSYKBPuuRZIpYBZEjLZry5p6xHUpsKuflNXy7sdeHBviU+x8J57ip4DLx2 +tlv4dtjLKxzVGEqEfWOb3oRHCJ1t2IgV5A9RBzp2SXke56pTo2Fr67QcvwZAAUT tBxhIG5ldyBlbnRpdHksIGFzIHlldCB1bm5hbWVk =h9Uo - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMK5/9SoZzwIn1bdtAQFS0wF+NyWTvLIZr05q8O4LOCgM0W1lHKBy+iu3 P3k3Yy7+FIS15erO88CDpwIBbywqQ+Pa =wJn0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----