From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 08:04:43 +0800
To: "Robert A. Costner" <mnuck@umr.edu>
Subject: Re: cute.
In-Reply-To: <19971101145349.14850@ultra7.umr.edu>
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At 2:59 PM -0700 11/1/97, Robert A. Costner wrote:
>At 02:53 PM 11/1/97 -0600, Matthew Nuckolls wrote:
>>What's the point in distribuing your public key through the same
>>channels as a signature? Kinda defeats the purpose. Esp since I can't
>>verify that the given public key is indeed yours, since you're anonymous.
>
>I don't think the message in question allows you to verify the state issued
>id of the key owner, but it does allow you to verify that Amad3us's
>message, and all similarly signed messages belong to the same person or
>group .
>
>I don't see any need for a key to be traceable to any specific person who
>is in fact some particular natural person.  It seems to me that the fact
>the message signature is good (I didn't check it) would be tend to prove he
>is the owner of the key, since he can write messages with it.  Who he is on
>his birth certificate and driver's license are beside the point.

I think Robert really "gets" it.

I have in the past been critical of some of his views, and suspected there
were things about crypto and rights he just didn't get.

But everything he says here is right on.

- --Tim May

The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES:   408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
Higher Power: 2^2,976,221   | black markets, collapse of governments.
"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."



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