On 2011-07-19 9:48 AM, Ian G wrote:
OTR makes the same error. It takes a very interesting mathematical property, and extend it into the hard human world, as if the words carry the same meaning. Perhaps, once upon a time, in some TV court room drama, someone got away with lying about a document? From this, OTR suggests that mathematics can help you deny a transcript? It can't. It can certainly muddy the waters, it can certainly give you enough rope to hang yourself, but what it can't do is give some veneer of "it didn't happen." Not in court, not in the hard world of humans.
OTR gives you the same deniability as a plaintext communicated person to person. "He said ... she said"
No more, and no less. But that is quite a lot of deniability. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
