No one in particular immediately responded, "Is that you again, big O?"

There is always so much ado about being unable to "determine whether the speaker was Mr. bin Laden."

Wouldn't it be easier to just have Verisign issue him a certificate, and let him run an SSL-enabled web site? But perhaps the logistics of that model are too complicated.

Is it too much to ask for him to publish a public key?

He could distribute his messages with BitTorrent in the form of GPG-signed Ogg Vorbis files. And of course, the messages themselves would be protected by a Creative Commons license.