Re: Pasting in From:

[dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)]

"Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org> writes:

> It seems to me that the purpose of a remailer is to strip the headers,
> including the FROM header, not to put in fake headers.  Until someone can
> explain it to me, I'd consider the idea of adding a FROM header to
> anonymous mail to be asinine.
>
> Best I can tell, the only reasonable good purpose for this is to create a
> persistent nym identity without a reply to capability.  Well, remailer
> software cannot support everything I suppose. (Even if Cracker may
> apparently support this)
>
> I would think the best way to put in a persistent nym capability would be
> to database the PGP key id's along with the persistent identity.  Then the
> remailer could produce lines like
>
> 	From: "Monty Cantsin" <anon@anon.efga.org>
>
> Persistent identities would be created by sending a signed PGP message that
> includes both the PGP public key and the persistent identity.  Since the
> identity server would not database email addresses, only PGP key id's, and
> only work for signed messages, there should be no problem with people
> worrying about the remailer being compromised.  This also keeps someone
> from stealing another's reputation capital.

Igor's STUMP has a similar feature, although I don't think a lot of posters
currently use it.

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