Re: Maintaining a public identity (was Re: open source: ASD Project)

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:18:41 +0100

[ Followup-To -> colm ]

In alt.os.linux The Wizard <somewhere@over.the.rainbow>:

[..]

> No matter how I sign my posts, you can be assured that, with this common PGP
> key, the posts come from me.

> I can be "Lew Pitcher" today, and "The Wizard" tomorrow. I can post from any
> server, under any name, and still *prove* that I am the same person as the one
> who posted the message that AC objects to.

Indeed Lew, but you should know not to argue with him about
PGP/SA/etc.

In addition, anyone answering has to remove the stuff at the top
and at the bottom manually if his newsreader can't strip things or
a longer thread will become ugly pretty soon.

Don't get me wrong, we had enough forgers here around and signing
your post seems to be the only guarantee that it's at least from
the same person. Personally use header signing, which doesn't
require anyone to do extra cleaning and is still revisable for
anyone interested.

Dunno which newsreader can do this, it's just a small perl script
coming with mine that is called instead of internal inews and
does the magic.

[..] 

-- 
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
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daemons!

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