http://www.spammimic.com/encode.cgi supposedly encodes your short
messages as imitation spam, postings designed to fail content filtering
so (the author claims) bypass Echelon. Hmmm. Whoever put the site up
doesn't seem to have a clear distinction between cryptography,
stenography obfuscation. Does everyone have to reinvent the wheel
every time? Are we going to go through it all *again* with mobile phone
text messages?
It seems to be a version of Peter Wayner's bumf generator from way back
when: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/11.71.html#subj2 (Which has a very
funny bit in the style of a Neil Kinnock speech - maybe you have to be
in the Labour Party to get it...)
I don't think it is going to cause NSA any headaches. What chance do
they have of knowing about a method which has only been described in
Byte and on Risks? Presumably if you identify a posting as having been
through Mimic you can get enough text to recover the model you can
retrieve plaintext reasonably easily - so the secure use should be based
on ciphertext, not plaintext perhaps would avoid using models freely
available on the web. (there was some discussion on similar stuff on
coderpunks cypherpunks a few years back)
http://privacy.nb.ca/cryptography/archives/coderpunks/new/1998-03/0214.html
But it generates mildly amusing parodies of spam. Not as good as the
Neil Kinnock though.
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