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Carl Johnson's private key
I make that point in my article, but have not seen truthmonger's private
key posted. Care to forward it to me?
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980909-14593,00.html
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Anonymous wrote:
> Dear Mr Gordon,
>
> When I checked the
> digital signature on the Internet death threat using the PGP software
> and JOHNSON'S secret key ring, the computer identified the signature
> as one of the signature keys stored in JOHNSON'S computer. Because
> both the "private" and "public" portions of the "key" were stored on
> JOHNSON'S computer, the message can be authenticated as having been
> generated by the person who possessed this "secret key" and knew the
> correct password. In other words, only the person possessing the
> secret key found on JOHNSON'S computer could have generated the "death
> threat" message.
>
> Why would you claim only one person possessed the secret key? As you
> doubtlessly know, some of the TruthMonger secret keys have been posted
> to Cypherpunks anonymously. This is not authentication. Thank you.
>
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