| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

| It turns out that encryption is easy but authentication is hard.

I forgot to mention traffic analysis.  This is a very powerful tool
and difficult or expensive to protect against.  The "pen register"
stuff is all about traffic analysis.

To avoid traffic analysis while communicating:

- use covert channels

- hide your real traffic within bogus traffic (must be
  indistinguishable).  Requires a lot of traffic so this tends to be
  expensive.

- hide your traffic within a cloud of other traffic (must be
  indistinguishable).  This suggests aggregation but aggregation
  tends to work against the end-to-end security I prefer.

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