If one really wanted to overthrow the "People's Republic of Berkeley," using obfuscated e-mail addresses with the proposed methods outlined in this thread would be akin to inventing a solution for a problem that doesn't exist. There are already numerous methods for off-the-record encrypted communications. Indeed, OTR was to devised as a protocol that allows encrypted and authenticated communications without having to be a slave to an interminable digital signature that might come back to haunt you.
As for remaining anonymous, one can merely connect to the IM server via Tor or some other similar method. Or one could even run their own P2P IM software like XMPP thus cutting out the middle man. Another option is a hidden .onion IRC service or a SILC chat conference. If one is really bent on using e-mail, one can merely create a throw-away address using Tor and then create a throw-away GPG key. There are numerous ways to do this already. OpenPGP's goal is not anonymity or deniability. If you want that, there's better protocols and methods as Robert Hansen has hinted at already. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Security-of-the-gpg-private-keyring--tp31031263p31114600.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
