At 11:22 AM -0800 on 2/9/01, Danny O'Brien wrote: > Accusing us of "doting on my six year old childhood > peccadilloes", JULIAN ASSANGE, co-author of THE UNDERGROUND > and, we dotifully include, THE DAN FARMER RAP, directs our > attention as "citizen[s] of totalitarian England", to > RUBBERHOSE, his fine two-year-old toddler of a "deniable > encryption" system. In Assange's own sweet, twisted way, > Rubberhose is named after the decryption tactic it attempts > to defeat: Rubberhose Cryptanalysis, in which suspects are > exposed to repeated rounds of the "kick to the head" attack > until their password is revealed. Rubberhose thwarts this by > allowing a large number of encrypted messages to be stored > on the same drive, each encoded with a different password. > The total number of levels is unknown, so when Commandante > Plodista requests your passphrase, you can happily give him > the password to the lowest level (or three), confident that > noone can ever prove that this isn't *all* the data you have > on the drive. Along with StegFS, it's another recommended > RIP-bypasser. Unless you really are under risk of being > beaten up, in which case, we'll re-pose the FAQ: won't > rational torturers just beat you up *forever*? Anyone want > to pick up on the in-the-field research here? > http://www.rubberhose.org/ > - smart civil rights groups stick with Linux 2.2 > http://www.rubberhose.org/current/src/doc/beatings.txt > - taking "prisoner's dilemma" out of labs, into prisons > http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1995_2/0194.html > - hold on, if he was six in 1995... -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
