From: "Kurt Buff (Volt Comp)" <a-kurtb@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:17:36 +0800
To: Martin Diehl <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: RE: Spiderspace
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I think Tim was referring to someone gleaning your private key, which would 
be a Disastrous Thing (tm). If that's not what he was referring to, I still 
think it's a possiblity.

Kurt

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From: 	Martin Diehl[SMTP:mdiehl@dttus.com]
Sent: 	Tuesday, January 16, 1996 13:59
To: 	cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: 	Re: Spiderspace

     
On 1/16/96 12:35 PM, tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) at Internet-USA wrote:

     
> I've been thinking a lot about the problems and opportunities that are 
> coming up as more and more "spiders" (Web searchers, crawlers) are 
> indexing directories and files on systems they can find.

[snip]
     
     
> Sure enough, a search of "Cyberia-l" in Alta Vista showed all sorts of 
> hits, including what appeared to be several _private archives_ of parts 
> of the traffic. (By "private" I mean in the sense that they were 
> someone's personal archives, and not necessarily complete or even 
> semi-officially sanctioned.)
     
     [snip]
     
> I've started to look for things like PGP files laying around buried in 
> subdirectories. I can imagine attacks based on this.
     
[snip]
     
> Fourth...left to your imagination.
     
> --Tim May
     
> We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't 
> allowed. 
> ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 

> Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, 
> tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 

> W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets, 

> Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1  | black markets, collapse of governments. 
> "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information 
superhighway."
     
     I gather that it would be a Bad Thing (TM) to have someone get both 
     the encrypted and clear text forms of your message (from either you or 
     from the recipient)
     
     Maybe regularly changing your encryption keys is a Good Thing (TM)
     
     Martin G. Diehl