[47959] in Cypherpunks
Re: Signing nyms' keys (Was: Report on Portland Cpunks...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Thu Jan 25 02:52:27 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 23:13:03 -0800
To: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>, Bruce Baugh <bruceab@teleport.com>,
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
At 06:49 PM 1/24/96 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
>Person X commits treasonable act A. All of the persons who are signed on to
>his key could be considered to be co-conspirators. The same applies to
>nyms. The difficulty with prosecuting nyms is finding the link to the real
>world individual. Anyone associated with him/her/it will be considered to
>be guilty by reason of key signage or a way of determining who the real
>person is...
>
>The only way I see getting around this is only signing nyms with nyms or
>having some sort of zero knowlege proof on a key signing authority.
>Something where you can issue some sort of proof to the signing authority
>that you are who you say you are without giving any information about your
>"real" identity. I know of no foolproof way of doing this...
>
>I guess we are stuck with the "Web of Guilt"...
Doesn't all this stuff give you a headache <G>?
