[45885] in Cypherpunks
Re: CFS and Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Sun Dec 24 11:20:53 1995
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 08:06:48 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <1T7LgD3w165w@bwalk.dm.com> from "Dr. Dimitri Vulis" at Dec 24, 95 07:49:59 am
> That's what's wrong with the net in general. 10+ years ago, when I started
> using it, it was hard to use e-mail and Usenet, so most of the people using it
>had to be fairly intelligent. Today, no intelligence is required to use e-mail,
> or even a cpunks anonymous remailer. I wish crypto software and mail filtering
> software followed the suit and became as easy to use and transparent at the
> rest of our comm software.
Long for the good old days of bang-paths, 300 baud acoustic couplers
and UUCP maps? see http://www.lne.com/lemay/writings/curmudgeonnet.html
> I've been communicating with one sci.crypt personality, who configured his
> procmail to accept e-mail only from a list of people he knows. To be able to
>send him e-mail, I had to contact him by other means and ask him to add my name
> to the list of approved correspondents. :) He's not checking digital
> signatures, just the from lines. (By the way, he's not on cypherpunks because
> he considers the level of crypto expertise here to be too low.)
>
> Is this where we're heading?
Close.
Where we're headed is mail filters with PGP imbedded (PGP 3 will
make this much easier) that check incoming mail for a valid signature
for certain PGP keyid/fingerprints and pass that mail along.
Other mail that doesn't match gets tossed into a 'junk' folder
or thrown away if you really don't want to talk to anyone that you
don't already know.
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Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm
PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03 92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF
