Re: IPG Algorith Broken!
At 11:21 AM 11/24/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, John Anonymous MacDonald wrote:
diGriz
Use an anon. remailer and sign your posts. Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Actually, rather clever if you're trying to estlablish reputation. Just make sure you use the right key.
Reputation is not the only reason to use a "name" with an anon remailer. Sometimes you want to post (and have a reputation) that is entirely seperable from your "real life" persona. Maybe you have a job where being involved with "The Evil Cypherpunks(tm)" could result in hastles at work (or even firing) if known. (I recieved flack from one company I worked with for posting here... Until they needed a remailer set up and someone to explain how their software worked... But that is another story.) Cypherpunks is gated to a number of Usenet News servers. (Teleport is a good example.) It is also archived in a number of search engines. (Altavista if I remember correctly, is one of them.) Someone who does not want their words to come back any byte them might just use such a method to protect themselves. --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD." | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan@ctrl-alt-del.com|
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:
Actually, rather clever if you're trying to estlablish reputation. Just make sure you use the right key.
very true
Reputation is not the only reason to use a "name" with an anon remailer. Sometimes you want to post (and have a reputation) that is entirely seperable from your "real life" persona. Maybe you have a job where being
Stay with one nym long enough and the opposite may become true. I've used this nym for so long -- though not in these circles -- that I elected to associate my true name with it. The nym had far more built-up repuation that my true name ever would. (Of course, that's all meaningless here.) Besides, I *like* the nym. There is that psychological component of playing with an alter-ego. A lot can be said and done behind the veil of a nym that might not be otherwise. While many see this a threatening condition I have always viewed it as an advantage. Furthermore, it is a somewhat ironic avenue to truth. Politeness is not always conducive to getting to the heart of an issue; nyms have little need for politeness or sugarcoating.
Cypherpunks is gated to a number of Usenet News servers. (Teleport is a good example.) It is also archived in a number of search engines. (Altavista if I remember correctly, is one of them.) Someone who does not want their words to come back any byte them might just use such a method to protect themselves.
And I would assume another nym in such a circumstance. _______________________________________________________________ Omegaman <mailto:omega@bigeasy.com> PGP Key fingerprint = 6D 31 C3 00 77 8C D1 C2 59 0A 01 E3 AF 81 94 63 Send e-mail with "get key" in the "Subject:" field to get a copy of my public key _______________________________________________________________
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