On 07/14/2011 01:59 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
did the first party hack into the second party's computer and plant
the log file? had someone else hacked into it and used it to talk
with the first party? -- but that's also outside the crypto
protocol.
Put another way, the goal in a trial is not a mathematical proof,
it's proof to a certain standard of evidence, based on many different
pieces of data. Life isn't a cryptographic protocol.
The interesting thing in this case though is that the person providing
the plaintext log file is:
a) a convicted felon
b) working for the investigators/prosecutors (since before the purported
log file's creation?)
c) himself skilled in hacking
I haven't heard anything about any other evidence that may exist, but
just a text file by itself (or perhaps even the informant's computer as
a whole) doesn't seem particularly credible to me.
- Marsh
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