On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 10:41:31PM -0500, Signal 11 wrote: > > telling from the disk whether you had the banned data, that can be done > > just as well from the cyphertext as from the plaintext.
No, if you always have the banned data *encrypted again* whenever it touches the disk, and treat the singly-encrypted cyphertext the same way you treat the plaintext (providing that you treat the plaintext in a very, very paranoid manner (read some of my other posts on the subject)). > That rather depends on the method of encryption, now doesn't it? You are > assuming the same key and the same data would yield the same output. It > doesn't necessarily have to be that way. For all practical purposes, it is that way. -- 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: 1061 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000820/3b86fe64/attachment.pgp>
