Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera)

[Tyler Durden]

Sorry to be a blabbermouth folks, but this one is interesting. Delete anything I've written in the last two days if ya' want.

Here's something I've been thinking about for various reasons. I'm assuming this doesn't exist yet, but it's such an interesting idea I'm tempted to brush the dust off my C programming books...

Here's what I 'want':
Let's say I've been coerced into revealing the private key to a certain encrypted message. And now, of course, the authorities use that key and open the message, and see the contents (let's assume they are picture of a demonstration or whatever).

WOULDN'T IT BE NICE...If the original encrypted message actually had TWO messages inside it, both very similar. In this example, one of the messages is the "incriminating" pictures of the demonstration, the other is pictures of Pam Anderson or whatever.

AND, this double message has two private keys associated with it: one corresponds to the Pam Anderson photos, the other corresponds to the Demonstration photos. When coerced, I give up the key that opens the Pam Anderson photos (while hopefully annhilating the Incriminating photos).

Of course, there's no way the authorities know that there was another message (not if done very cleverly...Pam Anderson photos might be a little obvious) that they destroyed when they used the fake Private Key.

Does this exist? Would it be difficult?




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