Re: Constant Encrypted Stream

2002-12-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:35 PM 12/20/2002 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The moral equivalent of the pre-telegraph French semaphore soldiers doing the macarena... :-) To the tune of I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok. :-) Hey, you're hearing that more and more often in

Re: Constant Encrypted Stream

2002-12-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main problem to solve as I see it would be for legitimate recipients to be able to determine when a message is real and not trash, without letting an adversary know. Access such page via http. Sometimes it's a streamed webcam, sometimes it's

Constant Encrypted Stream

2002-12-21 Thread gann
and nobody has the resources to attack all of your mail. So, I was thinking that rather than just encrypt each message, why not just keep a constant encrypted stream open? So, even when you are asleep, computers at each node are bombarding each other with encrypted junk files. Your noise to signal

Re: Constant encrypted stream

2002-12-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Anonymous wrote: And I wonder...with international companies now cracking down on Power-Users of networks like Gnutella, one would think that building-in some crypto capabilities (say into Kazaa) could be something regular people might be willing to pay for. (Or, at the

Re: Constant encrypted stream

2002-12-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:01 PM 12/20/02 -0600, Anonymous wrote: Or, alternatively, if Crypto use by everyday folks was as common as, saying, Gnutella file sharing, then it would be a HELL of a lot harder for invisible ears to pick out potentially interesting encrypted files (how many Gnutella files are shared each

Re: Constant Encrypted Stream

2002-12-21 Thread Adam Shostack
message is important. Encrypting everything gives equal | suspicion to each message and nobody has the resources to attack all of your | mail. | | So, I was thinking that rather than just encrypt each message, why not just | keep a constant encrypted stream open? So, even when you are asleep

Re: Constant Encrypted Stream

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Very good, sir. Your next assignment is to read about Mixmaster anonymous remailer networks. Generally sending uniformly-sized (padded or fragmented or noise) blocks at regular intervals is preferable (and equivalent) to your suggestion of

Constant encrypted stream

2002-12-21 Thread Anonymous
It has been mentioned that you should always use crypto. If you wait until you actually have something private to send, then an adversary will know exactly which message is important. Or, alternatively, if Crypto use by everyday folks was as common as, saying, Gnutella file sharing, then it

Re: Constant Encrypted Stream

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The moral equivalent of the pre-telegraph French semaphore soldiers doing the macarena... :-) To the tune of I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok. :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike