[44637] in Cypherpunks
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ALICE'S ADDRESS REVEALED.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don M. Kitchen)
Mon Dec 4 05:33:23 1995
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 03:28:27 -0700 (MST)
From: "Don M. Kitchen" <don@cs.byu.edu>
Reply-To: "Don M. Kitchen" <don@cs.byu.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951203113046.13147B-100000@micro.internexus.net>
Someone posing as Alice said:
> As I promised, I've now opened a channel so that anyone who wants to
> can send Alice de 'nonymous email. I can now be reached via
> an455120@anon.penet.fi. Mail sent to Alice de 'nonymous at that
> address will get to me, and I will do my best to reply to you as well,
> but I can't guarantee, anything.
Laszlo Vecsey <master@internexus.net> said:
> I don't think that was a smart thing to do. Your real email is now
> registered in some database in Finland - how difficult would it be to
> retrieve it? From what I remember organizations like Scientology had no
Not _nearly_ as hard as breaking/finding an appropriately encrypted key.
I for one am not going to even bother with the penet address unless the
posts come from there. After all, it's a forgery anyway. The real Alice
already posted a PGP key. I wouldn't be reading this list if I were
going to fall over for a simple impersonation.
Of course, if our impersonating, trusts-penet-not-PGP-coworkers-think-
of-everything-but-a-packet-sniffer Alice were to post from penet,
then everyone (including procmail ;) would have to believe his claims
of pseudo-identity.
I must say, L.D. is really falling all over himself this time. Maybe
he's just trying to make people *think* he's a cryptobungler, so that he
can keep his other tentacles with whom he converses out of suspicion.
Don
Wishing Emacs had IMAP support cuz here comes mailcrypt
