Tei <oscar.vives@gmail.com> wrote:
Anonymity on the Internet is a feature, because a lot of the world netcitizens come from countries where saying this or that is a crime, and can get you in trouble.
Note that you need to make a distinction between pseudonymity and anonymity. In most online situations anonymity is not useful, because you want a service to be able to identify you as the same person when you go away and come back later. You want the service to attach a pseudonym to you, and you want to be in control of whether this pseudonym is linked to your identities at other services or in the real world. Whether you authenticate your pseudonym with a password or a cryptographic key is immaterial, provided the key store supports unlinked identities - i.e. it must not require you to use the same key for everything. A good key store makes it easier to decouple your identities at different services than remembering N different username + password pairs. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ North Portland, Plymouth: Cyclonic, becoming westerly 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8. Rough. Rain or showers. Good, occasionally poor.