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Re: Selection key crypto protocol trial balloon
[email protected] writes:
> > Um no. The main thing is that what is extracted with the selection key is
> > _different_ from what was put in...
>
> But the only things the selectioon key can extract are what the senders
> put in plus what the system did to it once it was there, which is not
> informationally different than what the senders put there.
True, just as ciphertext is not different, informationally, from plaintext.
It's just a pair of transformations, both by the system, one in response to
the sender and the other in response to the receiver. A bit like an airlock -
if the two transformations are the right ones, extraneous information such as
the identity should not pass through.
> I suppose you could play some games by sending the message in
> multiple parts, with parts sent by 1-way anonymous remailer,
> but there's still a certain amount of traffic analysis you can do.
>
> Bill
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