hashed user IDs [was: Re: Security of the gpg private keyring?]

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Thursday 10 March 2011 at 1:34:13 PM, in
<mid:4D78D355.3000307 at sixdemonbag.org>, Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> A public certification is intended as an
> announcement to the world: "Hey, world!  I am [name]
> and I vouch for this certificate!"

Which most people will hear as "Hey, world! I am somebody you don't
know and I vouch for this certificate!"



> If people want to make public pronouncements of social
> relationship, why in the world would you want to deploy
> a technology that makes it difficult to discover this
> social relationship?

I don't think anything has been suggested here that would make it
difficult to discover the social relationship. Just a means to make
the public pronouncement without publicly stating your identity. And
to do so in such a way that people who already know your identity can
tell it is you that made the pronouncement.


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