From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:16:59 +0800
To: Anonymous <nobody@anon.olymp.org>
Subject: Carl Johnson's private key
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I make that point in my article, but have not seen truthmonger's private
key posted. Care to forward it to me?

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980909-14593,00.html


On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Anonymous wrote:

> Dear Mr Gordon,
> 
>    When I checked the
>    digital signature on the Internet death threat using the PGP software
>    and JOHNSON'S secret key ring, the computer identified the signature
>    as one of the signature keys stored in JOHNSON'S computer. Because
>    both the "private" and "public" portions of the "key" were stored on
>    JOHNSON'S computer, the message can be authenticated as having been
>    generated by the person who possessed this "secret key" and knew the
>    correct password. In other words, only the person possessing the
>    secret key found on JOHNSON'S computer could have generated the "death
>    threat" message.
> 
> Why would you claim only one person possessed the secret key? As you
> doubtlessly know, some of the TruthMonger secret keys have been posted
> to Cypherpunks anonymously. This is not authentication. Thank you.
> 
> 
>