[49004] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anti-Nazi Authentication [Was: Tim's paranoid rant about Declan...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Fri Feb 2 14:11:34 1996
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:06:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: bryce@colorado.edu
Cc: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@cmu.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199602021350.GAA03188@nag.cs.colorado.edu>
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Bryce wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> An entity calling itself "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
> is alleged to have written:
> >
> > Now, this guy copied that file from my web site. Fine -- it was up for
> > FTP. But editing my comments to *support* Neo-Nazis and leaving my name
> > is just fucking too much. I've sent him polite mail requesting a change.
> > We'll see what happens.
>
> Polite? You show more restraint than most of us would
> I suspect. Actually it is probably a good tactic for the
> first encounter.
Certainly a lot more polite than I am...
> > Cypherpunk relevance? Authentication for web pages. There's no reason
> > for a reasonable person to believe, at first glance, that I was *not*
> > the author.
>
> It is possible to PGP-clearsign web pages using comments.
> PGP's insertion of "- " before any line beginning with "-"
> might cause a problem, but you'll just have to be a little
> more careful.
What's wrong with a prominent PGP-signed notice in <PRE>'s that "This
page, at URL [whatever], has a separate PGP signature at [other URL]."
I've did that with the windows networking FAQ a few times until it just
got to be too much trouble.
-rich
