[13704] in Cypherpunks
Re: Message Havens
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Lui Barrus)
Sun May 15 11:49:08 1994
From: Karl Lui Barrus <klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu>
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 10:45:37 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405141940.MAA21337@jobe.shell.portal.com> from "Hal" at May 14, 94 12:40:23 pm
Hal wrote:
>Would it have to be public knowledge which message havens a given
>pseudonym monitors? Suppose I want to get mail to Pr0duct Cypher; don't
>I have to know which haven(s) to use? If we have only a (few?) hundred
>people on each haven then this narrows down the pool of possible real
>user who are behind that pseudonym considerably.
Hal brings up an excellent point! I forgot to consider this, if there
are several message havens, then you need to know what havens your
party monitors...
Hm... I guess you'd need to start the conversation by broadcasting the
initial message to all havens.
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Karl L. Barrus: klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu
keyID: 5AD633 hash: D1 59 9D 48 72 E9 19 D5 3D F3 93 7E 81 B5 CC 32
"One man's mnemonic is another man's cryptography"
- my compilers prof discussing file naming in public directories
