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1998-01-19 - let’s do it: NYT ad with hash of fingerprints (fwd)

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From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Message Hash: b1b794f8aa035ac47efd7afcacc9627421da6a0f3589d3b38ecdc38e07985914
Message ID: <199801190033.SAA19067@einstein.ssz.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1998-01-19 00:03:59 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:03:59 +0800

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From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:03:59 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: let's do it: NYT ad with hash of fingerprints (fwd)
Message-ID: <199801190033.SAA19067@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 23:21:38 GMT
> From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
> Subject: let's do it: NYT ad with hash of fingerprints

> I would have thought you would take out a cheap personals section
> advertisement and print one hash output and a URL.  The hash ouput
> would be the hash of the hashes of a chosen set of public key
> fingerprints.

This doesn't provide the same sort of protection the original full page ad
is supposed to provide. That full page ad will be accessible as a referenc
a hundred years from now in just about every library in the country. The
link to a webpage won't be.

Distinctly different security animals.


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