[Asrg] 3. Requirements - Support for Anonymity (Re: [Asrg] Maintaining Anonymity in an Authenticated System)
Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com> Wed, 02 July 2003 19:49 UTC
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Subject: [Asrg] 3. Requirements - Support for Anonymity (Re: [Asrg] Maintaining Anonymity in an Authenticated System)
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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 15:46:44 -0400
At 03:00 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, Philip Miller wrote: >In all the discussion of authenticating individual senders rather than the >servers and MTAs they're using, we've all forgotten that there are >circumstances in which anonymity is a requirement. Think of corporate >whistle-blowing situations, in which someone wishes to send an anonymous >message to an entity like a media organization or the SEC. In a world in >which all transmissions are undeniably authenticated to a sender, this >becomes impossible. >Anonymous transmission is indeed a feature of our current systems, not a >bug. Any new system or authentication layer on top of what already exists >needs to maintain that. One interesting observation that was made that spammer usually do not use CyberPunk anonymous remailers to send spam or any other kind of anonymous remailers. There must be a reason for that, perhaps because they see no need to do so. However, you are definitely right, anonymity is important. One distinction that can be made perhaps, that a trusted system could be implemented for bulk email only, thus allowing anyone to send a single message anonymously once. The question remains - can a trust system allow for anonymity? _______________________________________________ Asrg mailing list Asrg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg
- [Asrg] Maintaining Anonymity in an Authenticated … Philip Miller
- [Asrg] 3. Requirements - Support for Anonymity (R… Yakov Shafranovich
- Re: [Asrg] Maintaining Anonymity in an Authentica… Andrew Akehurst
- Re: [Asrg] Maintaining Anonymity in an Authentica… Spencer Dawkins
- Re: [Asrg] Maintaining Anonymity in an Authentica… Andrew Akehurst
- Re: [Asrg] Maintaining Anonymity in an Authentica… Steve Schear
- Re: [Asrg] Maintaining Anonymity in an Authentica… Andrew Akehurst
- Re: [Asrg] Maintaining Anonymity in an Authentica… Yakov Shafranovich