Anonymous Credit

[Ben Laurie]

Andrew Brown wrote:
> 
> >Just thought I should point out that recycling an old idea allows
> >researchers to publish stuff anonymously that could be illegal under
> >DMCA (or other ridiculous legislation) and still get the credit when the
> >world comes to its senses. The formula is simple: create a PGP key and
> >sign the publication. Publish anonymously (or pseudonymously, if you
> >prefer) in the usual way (carefully, please!). Once it becomes legal to
> >claim the credit, prove you have the corresponding private key, and
> >there you are.
> 
> just for fun, let's suppose that your anonymous publication was a fine
> description of how to factor really large numbers in trivial time (and
> you really don't want every large intelligence agency and their
> bastard children coming after you).
> 
> how would you sign that?  after all, your paper would effectively be a
> description of how to sign anything with anyone's public key.

In this case, I would recommend some other technology for signature.

Cheers,

Ben.

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