As Hal Finney suggests, a pseudonym is a key. Others have also inquired about my key, so I made one. However, posting it to the group makes no sense because if this message were a forgery, then someone could pose as me. Strange, the idea of someone posing as someone else's pseudonym. Anyway, send me e-mail if you want my public key, and I'll send it to you. Wonderer P.S. Silly pgp question: When I type pgp -sa file -u wonderer I produce an entire pgp message. How do I make a shorter signature that is a hash of my message? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi.
I think you miss the point of Public Key Crypto. The idea is that you CAN publish your public key, to one and all. Then when you sign a post with your private key (and do work hard to keep that key private!), then anyone can verify that _you_ (in the guies of your public/private key pair) wrote the message. No one else can sign a message such that _your_ public key will decrypt the sig in a valid way, unless you have let your private key leek out. This is the whole wonderful idea that make Public Key crypto so wonderful. You are createing a strong and valued Psudonym, and signing your messages will only make it stronger! Then there is no way to really spoof a message from 'Wonderer', as you will be ('Wonderer'*KEY) and a solid nym-citizen. Make sence? ||ugh Daniel hugh@toad.com
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