On 2003.06.17 20:23 John Hebert wrote: > I think he meant that something like Carnivore could easily pick up the fact > that only one out of ~100 messages were encrypted by parsing the message > headers, and then somehow note that fact, or start a brute force decryption > of it on the square miles of the NSA's underground server clusters. >
That's about it. Sometimes, the fact that you have something to tell someone is more important than what you say. A sudden burst of encrypted messages between JD Edwards and Peoplesoft might spark Lary's interest.
