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Re:quote of the day
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[email protected] writes:
>
> Only those means of security are good, are
> certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself
> and your own vigor.
> - Machiavelli
>
That reminds me of my first reaction to CypherPunks: why would the government
spend thousands of $$$ of supercomputer time & mathematician brains to see
your miserable piece of information, when all they have to do is lock you up
at the back of a countryside garage, beat the shit out of you, inject
various chemicals into your blood until you spit out your secret key ?
That was a bit harsh, but, going back to the essentials, a crypto system
is as weak as its weakest link, isn'it ? Now that we've got them pgp, RSA and
IDEA and whatnot, fine, we've built a 20 inches thick steel chain around our
little secrets.
Except that this marvelous piece of technology is held together with a hair
strand: your brain.
Where you key is kept, and where everybody assumes it's safe.
Isn't time we take a look at another kind of cryptographic attack, the
ancestor of which bore the delicate name of penthotal ?
Nobody ever speaks of them chemicals that make you talk. But they exist,
and as well as cryptography techniques developed fast recently, trust the
government, those chemicals must have made a few advances.
Like, for example making you tell what you don't want to and then make you
forget about anybody asking.
Or maybe I watch too many serials.
Does anybody have informations about state of the art tell-us-you-story-pills ?
- -zap
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