[47914] in Cypherpunks
Re: Signing nyms' keys (Was: Report on Portland Cpunks...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Baugh)
Wed Jan 24 20:19:21 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:12:59 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bruce Baugh <bruceab@teleport.com>
At 01:42 PM 1/24/96 PST, janzen@idacom.hp.com wrote:
>Furthermore, by signing a nym's key you place yourself at risk. If you
>sign the nym's key with your own key -- or sign using the key of your
>own nym, and that nym is subsequently "outed" -- then anyone wishing to
>find the individual(s) behind any nym whose key you've signed can
>attempt to coerce you into revealing this information, since you have
>claimed to know it.
This is the real problem, one which doesn't (to me) have a ready solution.
If others can demonstrate that there [is|is not] some fairly straightforward
way around it, I'd be happy to read it.
Bruce Baugh
bruceab@teleport.com
http://www.teleport.com/~bruceab
