CFS and Linux

[Eric Murray]

> That's what's wrong with the net in general. 10+ years ago, when I started
> using it, it was hard to use e-mail and Usenet, so most of the people using it
>had to be fairly intelligent. Today, no intelligence is required to use e-mail,
> or even a cpunks anonymous remailer. I wish crypto software and mail filtering
> software followed the suit and became as easy to use and transparent at the
> rest of our comm software.

Long for the good old days of bang-paths, 300 baud acoustic couplers
and UUCP maps?  see http://www.lne.com/lemay/writings/curmudgeonnet.html

> I've been communicating with one sci.crypt personality, who configured his
> procmail to accept e-mail only from a list of people he knows. To be able to
>send him e-mail, I had to contact him by other means and ask him to add my name
> to the list of approved correspondents. :) He's not checking digital
> signatures, just the from lines. (By the way, he's not on cypherpunks because
> he considers the level of crypto expertise here to be too low.)
> 
> Is this where we're heading?

Close.

Where we're headed is mail filters with PGP imbedded (PGP 3 will
make this much easier) that check incoming mail for a valid signature
for certain PGP keyid/fingerprints and pass that mail along.
Other mail that doesn't match gets tossed into a 'junk' folder
or thrown away if you really don't want to talk to anyone that you
don't already know.


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Eric Murray  ericm at lne.com  ericm at motorcycle.com  http://www.lne.com/ericm
PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03  92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF