RIPApart3 is the new law here in the UK that gives the Government the right to demand the plaintext and/or keys of "information protected by encryption". This includes intercepted communications, information on hard discs in PC's, and information stored on servers. And your PGP/RSA private keys... m-o-o-t is an open-design, open-source, hopefully free cryptography project originally begun to defeat RIPAPart3 and make it look silly, and to allow UK citizens to communicate and to store information without worrying about it. m-o-o-t will also defeat Carnivore and the Australian and proposed NZ and Council of Europe laws regarding seizure of stored data, intercepted data, traffic data and access to plaintext/keys of encrypted data. m-o-o-t is for everybody including the near computer-illiterate, we will make it as easy to use as we can, and we will implement it to run on as many platforms as we can. We say it's hopefully free but the data havens and an ISP will need some income to function. We hope to raise enough from advertising revenue, but no guarantees. At a minimum the program itself will be free for individuals. m-o-o-t uses ephemeral keys for forward secrecy against interception, uses fixed data sizes, random padding and encrypted headers to foil traffic analysis, boots and runs a dedicated user program suite on it's own operating system from a verifiable CD using no local storage to prevent any other executable code (trojans, backdoors etc) getting in and to prevent attacks based on seizure of computers, and uses deniable steganography to store data split between data havens. At least that is our present design. m-o-o-t is open-design, so _please_ criticise our designs, point out holes and suggest improvements. We won't be writing code until next year when we have finished the open-design phase. You can help write code, suggest algorithms etc. then if you want. m-o-o-t's website is at: http://www.m-o-o-t.org Peter
