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Delivered-To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:41:12 -0500 From: John Denker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 To: Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Conspiracy Theory O' The Day Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I just got a batch of spam: perfectly justified blocks of random-looking > characters. Makes me wonder if somebody is trying to train Bayesian > filters to reject PGP messages. Another hypothesis: Cover traffic, to defeat traffic analysis. The procedure: send N copies. N-M of them are spam, sent to uninterested parties. The other M parties are the intended recipients. Provided N>>M, and other mild restrictions, they achieve plausible deniability. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
