Re: Privacy Implications Of Signing Keys

2005-06-17 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Psy-Kosh wrote: > > > Not to mention that anyone can sign keys, independant of the will of the > key's owner. (I think a protocol to actually remove unwanted sigs from a > key may be useful. (ie, a way to have the removal propagated by the > keyserve

Re: Privacy Implications Of Signing Keys

2005-06-17 Thread Psy-Kosh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just wondering (as you do)... as great as it is signing other people's keys, someones public key does actually reveal quite a lot about the real world movements and aquaintances of the keyholder as it accumulates signatories does it not

Re: Privacy Implications Of Signing Keys

2005-06-17 Thread Len Sassaman
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Bill Thompson wrote: > Yes, but if you want to remain anonymous what is the point of > cryptographically signing your e-mail? You can't have it both ways. Sure you can. Read up on anonymous and pseudonymous mail systems. But that's not the danger what Shaun was talking about.

Re: Privacy Implications Of Signing Keys

2005-06-17 Thread Johan Wevers
Bill Thompson wrote: >Yes, but if you want to remain anonymous what is the point of >cryptographically signing your e-mail? You can't have it both ways. Assuring a mail comes from the same (unkbown) sender. The cracker of the "improved" MS DRM system used it this way: his mails (actually, newsgro

Re: Privacy Implications Of Signing Keys

2005-06-17 Thread cdr
Bill Thompson wrote: Yes, but if you want to remain anonymous what is the point of cryptographically signing your e-mail? Guarantee of continuity of particular communication thread (as opposed to the guarantee of correspondent's identity). C. Rok __

Re: Privacy Implications Of Signing Keys

2005-06-17 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:13:02 +0100 Shaun Lipscombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering (as you do)... as great as it is signing other people's > keys, someones public key does actually reveal quite a lot about the > real world movements and aquaintances of the keyholder as it accumulates >

Re: Privacy Implications Of Signing Keys

2005-06-17 Thread cdr
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: Just wondering (as you do)... as great as it is signing other people's keys, someones public key does actually reveal quite a lot about the real world movements and aquaintances of the keyholder as it accumulates signatories does it not? The main purpose of Web-of-trust i