NODE 2381ac88My key
an41418@anon.penet.fi (wonderer)Wed, 27 Oct 93 10:27:55 PDT
As Hal Finney suggests, a pseudonym is a key. Others have
also inquired about my key, so I made one. However,
posting it to the group makes no sense because if this
message were a forgery, then someone could pose as
me. Strange, the idea of someone posing as someone
else's pseudonym.
Anyway, send me e-mail if you want my public key, and I'll
send it to you.
Wonderer
P.S. Silly pgp question: When I type pgp -sa file -u wonderer
I produce an entire pgp message. How do I make a shorter
signature that is a hash of my message?
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NODE b8806cd8My key
hugh@ecotone.toad.com (Hugh Daniel)Wed, 27 Oct 93 14:42:40 PDT
I think you miss the point of Public Key Crypto. The idea is that
you CAN publish your public key, to one and all. Then when you sign a
post with your private key (and do work hard to keep that key
private!), then anyone can verify that _you_ (in the guies of your
public/private key pair) wrote the message. No one else can sign a
message such that _your_ public key will decrypt the sig in a valid
way, unless you have let your private key leek out.
This is the whole wonderful idea that make Public Key crypto so
wonderful.
You are createing a strong and valued Psudonym, and signing your
messages will only make it stronger! Then there is no way to really
spoof a message from 'Wonderer', as you will be ('Wonderer'*KEY) and a
solid nym-citizen.
Make sence?
||ugh Daniel
hugh@toad.com