1994-06-11 - Re: back to programming projects…

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From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
To: Eric_Weaver@avtc.sel.sony.com (Eric Weaver)
Message Hash: 0ae812aaccbb95e7905c4ba1768310168cb8bb3a9188f882c9af7778bbb3954c
Message ID: <199406112256.RAA05271@zoom.bga.com>
Reply To: <9406110002.AA03441@sosfc.avtc.sel.sony.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-06-11 22:56:44 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 11 Jun 94 15:56:44 PDT

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From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 94 15:56:44 PDT
To: Eric_Weaver@avtc.sel.sony.com (Eric Weaver)
Subject: Re: back to programming projects...
In-Reply-To: <9406110002.AA03441@sosfc.avtc.sel.sony.com>
Message-ID: <199406112256.RAA05271@zoom.bga.com>
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> 
>    From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
>    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 16:34:05 -0500 (CDT)
> 
>    Why should I trust them at all? Why should I willingy become an
>    occomplice in any of their activities? I don't [want?] anyone,
>    including me, being able to figure out what is going on. But more
>    importantly you seem to assume that these pair of communicators are
>    not trying to determine something about me with their traffice.
> 
> So you're trying to prevent the users from finding something out about
> you?  What, exactly?  Trying to understand the issue here.
>
There is no issue. I simply do not choose to trust those who use my 
system. Seems prudent to me. If  you would like to trust total strangers
that is your perogative.

>    By encrypting the outgoing the reciever is
>    shure that it came from my re-mailer and not somebody else.
> 
> If you encrypt it with the remailer's private key, yeah.  I thought
> you were saying earlier that you'd encrypt the outgoing messages with
> the recipient's public key.  Did I misunderstand?
> 
I have to encrypt  w/ my private key and their public key. All they have
access to is my public key.
The point is to verify where the packet came from, not what is in it.





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