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Re: Privacy (Was Re: Rant (Was Re: ...FTP...))
From: John McDermott <jjm () jkintl com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 99 10:05:42
Adam, You missed half my question. I was asking about anonymity *with* some sort of authentication. That is some way to be sure I am the same person I was before. In other words, in the case of the IRS employee in your example, if she sent two messges to <whomever> about the situation at the IRS, it would be nice for the recipient to know they both came from the same person. That is *different*, I believe, than the total anonymity we have now. --john --- On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:13:52 -0400 Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org> wrote:
Anonymity is damned useful. Just ask the woman who is about to be fired by the IRS for not covering her face when testifying before congress. Heck, ask any whistleblower about the usefulness of anonymity. Or ask someone who is being stalked if they like how many details of their life are public. Ask someone who wants an HIV test. For more, see the marketing stuff at Zero Knowledge (www.zks.net) or the Anonymizer (www.anonymizer.com) Adam On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:03:04AM +0000, John McDermott wrote: | My question is: is there a benefit to deploying a system where we can | provide anonymity, but still authenticate? That is, can I send a
message
| to a list, for example, as "Joe Blow", which is not my real name :-),
but
| still provide, say, a certificate in the name of Joe which assures the | readers that I am Mr. Blow? Is there a benefit in that (or in other | anonymity for that matter)? -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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- Privacy (Was Re: Rant (Was Re: ...FTP...)) John McDermott (Apr 21)
- Re: Privacy (Was Re: Rant (Was Re: ...FTP...)) Adam Shostack (Apr 22)
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- Re: Privacy (Was Re: Rant (Was Re: ...FTP...)) John McDermott (Apr 22)
- Re: Privacy (Was Re: Rant (Was Re: ...FTP...)) Ryan Russell (Apr 22)