Re: Sign-or-delay

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Eric Hughes writes

> I am still considering the "sign-or-delay" proposal for the toad.com
> server, that is, sign your articles to the list or they'll be delayed
> and eventually rejected.

Well, it's easy to require people to include PGP signatures.
However, for some people, it's difficult to do signatures in a
secure and also convenient fashion across a mix of mailers;
Tim's netcom+Mac example, or anyone using an insecure system.
My laptop where I get my work-related mail really can't handle
the volume of mail I get from cypherpunks; I'm using it as a
terminal to talk to a netblazer to telnet to a Sun where I still
have an account several gateways away, on which I haven't been
root for over a year...  Sure, I forward some of the interesting
mail to the not-very-diskful laptop, and could wait for it to arrive
and PGP-sign my replies, which will delay my articles anyway.
On the other hand, if I sign them here, half of AT&T could probably
grab the passphrase with a sniffer, so it's not something I'd
trust my real keys to.  Similarly, I wouldn't put real keys on 
netcom or other mass service provider.

On the other hand, how carefully were you planning to make your
system check signatures - does toad.com have the spare cycles
to validate them all, or are you really going for syntax only?

		Thanks;  Bill


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From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)

   Well, it's easy to require people to include PGP signatures.

And, as I've said, that's not what I'm talking about.

   On the other hand, how carefully were you planning to make your
   system check signatures - does toad.com have the spare cycles
   to validate them all, or are you really going for syntax only?

Well, I was going to do syntax only, because the real benefit is in
changing local software architecture to make automatic any operation
on outgoing mail.  If that operation is encryption, so much the
better, but the larger strategic goal is to alter architecture.

Eric

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Cute!!! Kind of like Kevin Neelan's subliminal bit on SNL.

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