Dear Mr Gordon, When I checked the digital signature on the Internet death threat using the PGP software and JOHNSON'S secret key ring, the computer identified the signature as one of the signature keys stored in JOHNSON'S computer. Because both the "private" and "public" portions of the "key" were stored on JOHNSON'S computer, the message can be authenticated as having been generated by the person who possessed this "secret key" and knew the correct password. In other words, only the person possessing the secret key found on JOHNSON'S computer could have generated the "death threat" message. Why would you claim only one person possessed the secret key? As you doubtlessly know, some of the TruthMonger secret keys have been posted to Cypherpunks anonymously. This is not authentication. Thank you.
I make that point in my article, but have not seen truthmonger's private key posted. Care to forward it to me? http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980909-14593,00.html On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Anonymous wrote:
Dear Mr Gordon,
When I checked the digital signature on the Internet death threat using the PGP software and JOHNSON'S secret key ring, the computer identified the signature as one of the signature keys stored in JOHNSON'S computer. Because both the "private" and "public" portions of the "key" were stored on JOHNSON'S computer, the message can be authenticated as having been generated by the person who possessed this "secret key" and knew the correct password. In other words, only the person possessing the secret key found on JOHNSON'S computer could have generated the "death threat" message.
Why would you claim only one person possessed the secret key? As you doubtlessly know, some of the TruthMonger secret keys have been posted to Cypherpunks anonymously. This is not authentication. Thank you.
Anonymous notes:
Gordon writes in the arrest note posted to jya.com: : [...] In other words, only the person possessing the : secret key found on JOHNSON'S computer could have generated the "death : threat" message.
Why would you claim only one person possessed the secret key? As you doubtlessly know, some of the TruthMonger secret keys have been posted to Cypherpunks anonymously. This is not authentication. Thank you.
Would you happen to recall the subject field or approximate date of this message? (It's kind of difficult to search for Toto posts on various topics because the From line is mostly forged, via a remailer, or forged as coming from a remailer. Ditto for the author, using a different nym each time: TruthMongrel, DeathMonger, etc.) The collection of Toto's keys that he did post and the date he posted might be useful to archive at jya.com so that we can see which if any of Gordon's claims of proof of authentic Toto messages are valid. (I've got a set of archives going back to May 96 in RMAIL format, btw if anyone wants to redo Ryan Lackey's `complete cpunks archive'.) Adam
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