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Re: Anonymous Credit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun Sep 2 11:08:59 2001
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Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 14:19:50 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com>
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Rich Salz wrote:
>
> Clever.
>
> > Note that you should be rather careful about leaving the private key
> > lying around, just in case someone guesses who you are. And, in case it
> > isn't obvious, don't use the key for anything else.
>
> Perhaps safer: after you sign the publication, sign a statement of
> identity (I am Inego Montoya, and I cracked Ebook as shonw in the paper
> signed by the key that signed this), write it to a floppy, and store
> that somewhere, then destroy the key.
I suppose this is safer, in that it is deniable ("Me? Crack Ebook? Its a
setup!").
Cheers,
Ben.
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