On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:59:44AM +0700, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > Everybody is missing something here: the plaintext is not private. You see > that URL that is printed at the end, the part after the comma is the > decryption key, that is what you send to the world. The key is right > there, the NSA can request and read it like anybody else. And as far as > telling from the disk whether you had the banned data, that can be done > just as well from the cyphertext as from the plaintext.
Yes, but you may not want people (especially THE MAN) to know that you created a file or that you have read a file. Yes, the file itself is public information, but you very well may not want people to know that you have anything to do with the file. -- Travis Bemann Sendmail is still screwed up on my box. My email address is really bemann at execpc.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 1085 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000820/fc082a90/attachment.pgp>
