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brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
: In article <1992Aug28.140033.466@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de () writes:
: > So if this is interesting, how come more people don't post anonymously?
: > Why is your message signed Dan Bernstein, not Guess Who?
: 
: Where do you get the idea that people don't often post anonymously?

I can't imagine.  Reality?

I have been working with computers for about 10 years, and I
don't even *know how* to post anonymously.  I know how to
find out, but I've never bothered.   Never felt the need. 
Like most people I know.  

: (In the July 1992 Bulletin of the AMS, Shreeram Abhyankar says that
: Peter Neumann said that William Snow Burnside, who worked on the theory
: of equations, is not the same as William Burnside, who worked on the
: theory of groups of finite order. Both obtained a D.Sc. from Dublin
: around 1890.)

Same name != Same person.  We know. 

: > But I also see applications for secure newsgroups based on
: > real world identities.
: 
: I do not. In fact, unless you have an application which depends on the
: difference between one real person with two names and two people who
: happen to cooperate (overtly or secretly), an obvious isomorphism
: argument shows that your application *cannot* depend on ``real world
: identities.'' Except for certain government functions (such as voting) I

Say what?  Think of email firstly.  Think of the applications
for Non-repudiation, for example, that that offers.  Think of EDI.  
Think of digital contracts.

Now generalise email, and get conferencing and netnews.  Why
shouldn't generalised email have the same applications?

: see no such applications; and those functions won't be carried out on
: newsgroups any time this millenium.

Here we agree.
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