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Re: alt.anonymous.messages

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RS Wood wrote:
> Question: does anyone have any idea what is going on in that group?
> Endless, PGP messages of the same format and length?

It's a form of shared mailbox; mixing a bunch of different people's 
messages into the same pile.

One person can anonymously post an encrypted message there by way of 
avoiding evidence they posted/sent it, while another person can acquire 
the message from the public/shared mailbox by way of avoiding evidence 
they received it and then decrypt it.

The recipient downloads (or sees) all the messages or message headers in 
the mailbox/newsgroup and is (only) able to decrypt the one/s intended 
for them.



-- 
Mike Easter

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alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-16 11:15 +0000
  Re: alt.anonymous.messages Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-16 11:28 +0000
  Re: alt.anonymous.messages Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-16 05:03 -0700
    Re: alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-17 23:51 +0000
      Re: alt.anonymous.messages Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-17 17:45 -0700
        Re: alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-18 21:12 +0000
          Re: alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-19 17:47 +0000
            Re: alt.anonymous.messages Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-20 10:07 -0700
        Re: alt.anonymous.messages Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-19 20:18 +0000

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