re the secret source of that announcement i guess the cryptowranglers read this group too but of course i knew that because it is so easy to do there is not a single doubt in my mind that every byte that passes every significant gateway or bone is captured for the colligation of data about maybe your name is here maybe we should start a newsgroup for the distribution of encrypted posts intended of members of affinity groups with a shared private key for example at the coming up cypherpunks meeting a private key corresponding to that particular meeting could be passed out by a moderator minutes followup comments to other participants and so on could be posted to the alt encrypted group for the use of the people who attended communiques intended by the group for non attendees could of course just be signed using the private key but otherwises not encrypted starting a alt encrypted newsgroup rather than just maintaining mailing lists is better for several reasons first it would be easier to archive for people who might join a group late and who might like to easily read earlier posts second traffic analysis to know exactly to whom an affinity message is directed would be foiled three a newsgroup is much more public and would serve to publicize available privacy measures on the internet and it would be fun to accumulate a secret keyring full of such keys it beats giving out t shirts as a door prize we could send a copy of alt encrypted directly to judge william sessions or admiral studeman to save them the time of having it collected for them grady netcom com ef e ad d d c f fc ac f d f e f
