From: skaplin@skypoint.com (Samuel Kaplin)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 15:20:49 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: whats all this nonsense
In-Reply-To: <199411292103.AA07490@amhux3.amherst.edu>
Message-ID: <NExskKjqRCmV073yn@skypoint.com>
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In article <199411292103.AA07490@amhux3.amherst.edu>, you wrote:
>
> I just signed onto this list. What the hell is all this nonsense that I hear
> about mandating PGP signed messages?
>
> I thought the whole grassroots crypto thing was about protecting privacy
> rights and individual liberty and all that. So what if someone wants to
> post a message to cypherpunks AND DOES NOT WANT ANYONE TO BE ABLE TO
> PROVE THEY WROTE THE MESSAGE. Whether because they fear legal prosecution,
> or some other social consequence down the line, or whatever. It's everyone's
> personal choice whether they want their name nailed down unmistakably to
> given messages of personal/political/WHATEVER nature. It seems heinously
> against the spirit of this list to mandate that pople append an unforgeable
> digital signature to everything they feel like saying to the list so that
> anyone, anywhere can prove that they said a particular thing at a partic
> time. If you have a problem with what someone said and want to verify its
> authenticity, why not just send them an email and ask them to sign
> the message personally?
>
> Tom

If I had something to post that I did not want to be held accountable for,
I would post it via a remailer. If I post something in my own name I want
people to know that it came from me. A digital signature facilitates this.

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