Anonymous Credit

[Dave Bird]

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In article <20010901175951.A26979@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown
<atatat@atatdot.net> writes
>>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.

 It is only in the particular case  that your work invalidates the 
 present signing system, you cannot use the above method.  However, you
 could enclose a symmetrically encrypted block which -- on revelation
 of the correct symmetric key -- decrypted to your full contact details.


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