Nice note, Greg, thank you.
I remember the call to arms of PGP, get the whole world encrypting
email. And who can forget Gilmore's Free S/WAN goal, to secure 5% of
Internet traffic by the end of 1996? These proclamations were hugely
inspirational for me.
These efforts helped advance practical
I wonder if stego users will have to choose between uncrackable
encryption or undetectable data.
I don't think so. Replacing the low-order bits of a picture with
random noise (or an encrypted message) is silly - like you say, anyone
can find it easily. But there is a certain amount of free
Declan asks, in his Wired News article at
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21810.html
Why did the Clinton administration cave on crypto?
I don't understand that they caved on crypto. They've made it easier
for commercial products to include crypto, yes. But there are still
Eventually someone will write a trojan which searches memory for
Interesting Things left there by other apps or pretends to be a
trusted app to the user.
Can you name an operating system in common use today that doesn't
suffer from this problem? I see you have a PGP key - are you running
it a
I'm spending more and more of my time these days in the free software
community (not all that big a leap for a cypherpunk). I'm seeing the
"crypto integration" problem all over the place.
This is an issue of serious concern; it's really holding up the
adoption of encryption, particularly at the
