From: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 07:52:57 +0800
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Pasting in From:
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At 12:34 PM 12/1/97 -0800, stewarts@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>But you don't need a special anonymity server to do that;
>a keyserver plus either a personna certificate or some archiving mechanism
is enough.
>The certificate shows that you're the first+only person at that
>certificate issuer to use the name you've chosen; the archive
>shows that the first poster using the name <nym> used PGP Key <key>.
>I have a PGP key I use for signing pseudonyms which performs
>the personna certificate function - I'll verify uniqueness
>of keys that I've signed.  

I was thinking of remailers sending out anon messages with a distinct from
line that has zero connection (in the nym database) to any email address.
Is this possible?  To establish a nym only through one way communication?




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