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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:58
David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:09:30 -0700
At 05:48 PM 8/18/98 -0700, bram wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Berke Durak wrote:
>
>> I was dreaming for about two years of a distributed/serverless, encrypted
>> (and possibly anonymous) multi-user Internet chat protocol, that would
replace
>> IRC, and which would not require centralized servers to operate (which
>> impose control on users). I'm sure many people are thinking of such a
thing.
>
>Chat is a deceptively simple problem. After a nifty little application is
>created (generally within a very short period of time - tcp/ip is magical
>that way) it runs headlong into the identity problem.
>
>Who I am is Bram, an entity living outside of the digital world (more
>specifically, a human.) My 'real' identity is not to be confused with
>whatever public keys I might have - those may change over time. Nor is it
These are features, not bugs.
"You" are a public, pronouncable name (no !clicks please, no underscores,
hyphens for femsymps who don't grok namespace scaling) and whatever public
keys and
cash (anonymous or tracable) etc. are associated with them. Hell, they don't
even have to be associated, with anonymous cash; just post the data
and the recipient will decode.
Any association with ATOMs arranged as MEAT is purely voluntary and
entirely incidental, unless you actually want to exchange ATOMs (cf
WJClinton & Monica, or and Marion Barry and dat bitch) in SPACE.
This will be taken for granted by kindergarteners in 20 years.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:58