Signed, anonymous...(was Re: Getting Bush...)

Tim May tcmay at got.net
Tue Sep 25 12:54:22 PDT 2001


On Tuesday, September 25, 2001, at 12:17 PM, Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:48:44AM -0700, auto301094 at hushmail.com
> (auto301094 at hushmail.com) wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> Might I ask what the purpose of utilizing hushmail, signing a message,
> and not having publicly available keys, is?


1. The key may be known to others. And not all keys are on the public 
servers...

2. Proof at some future time that the same entity signed some message.

3. Other, easy to imagine reasons.



--Tim May





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