>Let's suppose that some stranger send me an unsolicited
>document encrypted with a key different from mine: how am I supposed to
>decrypt it? And can I really be thrown to jail for that??
Under the previous draft of the UK bill, yes -- see http://www.stand.org.uk/
for an amusing demonstration o
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Horowitz writes:
>else, ciphertext more than incrementally larger than plaintext is a
>red flag), and will demand both documents. I could conceive of stego
>which might permit this, since large expansion ratios are normal, but
>if you're doing stego, and they'
accepted.
Enzo
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From: Marc Horowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 2:34
Subject: Re: Coerced decryption?
> Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >&g
Russell Nelson writes:
> Nobody's mentioned the possibility of an encryption system which
> always encrypts two documents simultaneously, with two different keys:
> one to retrieves the first (real) document, and the second one which
> retrieves to the second (innocuous) document.
This idea has b
Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> Caspar Bowden writes:
> > And, as a result, the Bill proposes that the police or the security services
> > should have the power to force someone to hand over decryption keys or the
> > plain text of specified materials, such as e-mails, and jail those who
> > refuse
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Nobody's mentioned the possibility of an encryption system which
>> always encrypts two documents simultaneously, with two different keys:
>> one to retrieves the first (real) document, and the second one which
>> retrieves to the second (innocuous) d
It's "deniable encryption." One link is:
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/home/naor/public_html/PAPERS/deniable_abs.h
tml
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From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:31
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Coe
Caspar Bowden writes:
> And, as a result, the Bill proposes that the police or the security services
> should have the power to force someone to hand over decryption keys or the
> plain text of specified materials, such as e-mails, and jail those who
> refuse.
Nobody's mentioned the possibili
