[Cryptography] Email and IM are ideal candidates for mix networks

[Jonathan Thornburg]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> On the underlying matter of changing my public key:  *Why* would I have
> to change it?  It's not, as today, because I've changed my ISP or employer
> or some other random bit of routing information - presumably it's because
> my public key has been compromised.

Maybe it's because you've forgotten the passphrase guarding the
corresponding private key?

Or because you'd like to do the electronic equivalent of "change my name,
start [this facet of] my electronic life over"?

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-- "Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn at astro.indiana.edu>
   Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
   "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched
    at any given moment.  How often, or on what system, the Thought Police
    plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.  It was even conceivable
    that they watched everybody all the time."  -- George Orwell, "1984"