[104295] in Cypherpunks
plausible deniability (Re: ATTN: BlackNet, sog's keys 4 sale)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Wed Oct 14 22:34:39 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 03:00:58 +0100
From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: minow@pobox.com
CC: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-reply-to: <199810150105.CAA02529@server.eternity.org> (message from Adam
Back on Thu, 15 Oct 1998 02:05:35 +0100)
Reply-To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
I wrote discussing plausible deniability for public postings:
> But for your suggested applicatoin -- plausible deniability for
> `speaking truth to kings' -- it works fine, because that's the point,
> plausible deniability against well resourced attackers (you are in
> trouble if well resourced attackers are interested in you anyway), but
> some value to the signature for low resourced attackers.
>
> Other ways to provide plausible deniability is to not sign public
> posts, and to use non-transferable signatures for private email.
I missed from this list of approaches for plausible deniability the
canonical cypherpunks approach: post anonymously :-)
The other way is perhaps to have shared identities, such as Monty
Cantsin claimed to be, and such as perhaps Toto has been on occasion.
Adam
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