Anonymous Credit

[Andrew Brown]

>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.

[Use an HMAC and a secret only you know, then, or some similar
mechanism. If your new method destroys both public key methods and
hash functions at the same time, you'll need to be more creative --Perry]

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