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1993-05-31 - Crypto anarchy in a VW? (not the bug)

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From: poier@sfu.ca (Skye Merlin Poier)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: poier@sfu.ca (Skye Merlin Poier)
Date: Mon, 31 May 93 15:06:43 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Crypto anarchy in a VW? (not the bug)
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Has there been any discussion of anonimity / crypto anarchy in a virtual world
such as the ones described in _Snow Crash_ or _Neuromancer_? When the nets to
support these technologies come into place (and I have no doubt that they will),
perhaps a form of anonimity could be written into the architechture, instead of
having to add it on later as is the case now.... I would certainly be very 
interesting, especially with the work being done on creating alternate personas
(or avatars, whatever).

Also, a while back someone mentioned in passing buried cables.. this stirred up
an old idea I had about server anonimity, that is that the actual physical 
location of a server would be very difficult to pin down... the only way to do
this with any real degree of security would be to bounce signals off a satellite
but this would be rather costly...

Skye
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