gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?

[Leo Gaspard]

Well... IMHO you did all what you had to/could do, if you want to keep
confidentiality : claiming your public key in association with your name on
several websites. Now, just hope no covert agency will try to impersonate you
until a lot of people verify and sign your public key.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:38:23PM +0000, adrelanos wrote:
> Yes, I agree, it's pretty much impossible to distinguish myself from a
> nation-state's covert agency. Hence, I only asked how to claim a pseudonym.
> 
> David Chadwick:
> > Its pretty much impossible to distinguish a nation-state's covert agency
> > personnel who are masquerading as someone else from the real someone
> > else. In the UK we have recently had examples of undercover agents
> > infiltrating animal rights groups or similar as activists, forming deep
> > emotional relationships with female members, moving in with them, having
> > children with them, and then years later, after the group has been
> > smashed, disappearing from the scene. One such lady victim saw the
> > picture of a policeman years later (I think in a newspaper) and
> > recognised him as the father of her child, which is when the scam was
> > blown open. So in short, these agencies do not find it difficult to do
> > anything that they need or want to do
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > On 26/03/2013 17:36, Johnicholas Hines wrote:
> >> The question is how to distinguish yourself from a nation-state's covert
> >> agency purporting to be an individual interested in anonymity; you need
> >> to do something that the agency would find difficult to do.
> >>
> >> Getting your name and key into difficult-to-corrupt archives will start
> >> a timer - eventually you can point to the archives as evidence that you
> >> are not a newcomer. Even an agency would find it difficult to change
> >> history.
> >>
> >> Spending money or effort forces a covert agency to also spend money or
> >> effort to replicate your behavior. For example, if you sent someone a
> >> bitcoin, they would have to spend some dollars to establish themselves
> >> as comparably credible. Unfortunately, they have deep pockets. Effort
> >> might be preferable to money, since leaves more ways that a covert
> >> agency might make a mistake, behaving in some characteristic way (e.g.
> >> some sort of automatic authorship attribution software might become
> >> available that revealed them to be a team rather than an individual).
> >> Steady effort at releasing patches over a decade might be moderately
> >> credible.
> >>
> >> Johnicholas
> >>
> >>
> >>
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