1994-03-03 - Laziness?

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 47e46022f84b02e2c18237a6ddcbf5da6695d1908a921b2039c4c84dbe489bd7
Message ID: <9403030032.AA11554@ah.com>
Reply To: <199403022129.QAA28485@styracosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1994-03-03 00:39:56 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 16:39:56 PST

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 16:39:56 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Laziness?
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>Why announce to the world that I read
>cypherpunks if I don't have to?

This is one reason that we have not disable the 'who' command on the
toad.com majordomo server.  If you want the public not to know you're
on the cypherpunks list, get and use an alias.

>Point taken; but if you receive unencrypted mail on a multi-user
>system, you're likely deluding yourself about its security as well. 

There are two issues here.  I don't mind reading most mail on a shared
machine, but I'm sure as hell not going to let my private key inside
its RAM.

Eric

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• 1994-03-02 (Tue, 1 Mar 94 21:11:49 PST) - Re: Insecurity of public key crypto #1 (reply to Mandl) - Eric Johnson <ejohnson@pmip.dist.maricopa.edu>
  • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 04:15:29 PST) - Re: Insecurity of public key crypto #1 (reply to Mandl) - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
    • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 06:52:01 PST) - Increasing the encrypted/unencrypted ratio (was Re: Insecurity of public key crypto #1 (reply to Mandl)) - Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
      • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 08:30:14 PST) - Increasing the encrypted/unencrypted ratio (was Re: Insecurity of public key crypto #1 (reply to Mandl)) - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
        • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 13:35:16 PST) - Re: Increasing the encrypted/unencrypted ratio (was Re: Insecurity of public key crypto #1 (reply to Mandl)) - Anthony D Ortenzi <ao27+@andrew.cmu.edu>
          • 1994-03-04 (Fri, 4 Mar 94 13:04:32 PST) - Re: Increasing the encrypted/unencrypted ratio (was Re: Insecurity of public key crypto #1 (reply to Mandl)) - Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@crl.com>
      • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 10:38:38 PST) - Laziness? - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
        • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 13:29:40 PST) - Re: Laziness? - Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
          • 1994-03-03 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 16:39:56 PST) - Laziness? - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)