-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Mearns wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Joseph Oreste Bruni<[email protected]> wrote: > [clip] >> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11556 >> >> Not entirely on topic, but for those using GnuPG (or other encryption >> software), you should always keep abreast of the encryption laws of your >> country. > [clip] > > Has everyone seen the "Vanish" project from University of Washington? > http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/ > > If you haven't you should really give their paper a read, it's pretty > interesting. The basic idea is that the key is random, and no-one > actually needs to "know" it: it's broken up using secret sharing and > dsitributed through a peer-to-peer network. The recipient can retrieve > the shares and reconstruct the key for a one-time decryption, but over > time, the shares should naturally leave the network and eventually the > key is lost completely. > > I have my doubts, but I'm open to the possibility that it could work, > and I'm very interested to see how law-enforcement will respond if it > does. Will they force all p2p nodes to log everything, try to monitor > networks themselves, or just plain make the system illegal? >
If I remember correctly, wasn't something like this on Slashdot recently (or was it Vanish)? - -- Thanks Harry Rickards <[email protected]> GPG Key Info: pub 1024R/58449F6F 2009-06-12 uid Harry Rickards (OpenPGP Card) <[email protected]> sub 1024R/D775CCEE 2009-06-12 sub 1024R/9394048C 2009-06-12 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iJwEAQECAAYFAkqFfi4ACgkQ+9DWHFhEn2+dkwP/ZUImyBFwcV1CmfItKLbb6Sp7 YJdlmfrUNqOrEBwAKwkV3lFe4yyvLqw0Q7Pn3RsgFy1WMNqBuVMHr6AnoxFfnFF9 aq4iHUTkxzpy+oVOsqqj5aUHuijQzAjVQ93cYyWbRBA7suJlDD86gduWS0mUXnEH uTK6G1YrLvPQgnRU15o= =Uq97 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
