Re: Signing nyms' keys (Was: Report on Portland Cpunks...)

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

At 06:49 PM 1/24/96 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:

>Person X commits treasonable act A.  All of the persons who are signed on to
>his key could be considered to be co-conspirators.  The same applies to
>nyms.  The difficulty with prosecuting nyms is finding the link to the real
>world individual.  Anyone associated with him/her/it will be considered to
>be guilty by reason of key signage or a way of determining who the real
>person is...
>
>The only way I see getting around this is only signing nyms with nyms or
>having some sort of zero knowlege proof on a key signing authority.
>Something where you can issue some sort of proof to the signing authority
>that you are who you say you are without giving any information about your
>"real" identity.  I know of no foolproof way of doing this...
>
>I guess we are stuck with the "Web of Guilt"...

Doesn't all this stuff give you a headache <G>?