Re: Chaff in the Channel (Stealth PGP work)

[Mike Gurski <mgursk1@gl.umbc.edu>]

On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Nelson Minar wrote:

> As noble as "flood the detection channels" sounds, has it really ever
> succeeded? Do people who don't care about privacy day to day ever go
> through extra trouble to make other people's privacy easier? I can
> think of two public efforts to increase noise that have failed:
> putting Spook keywords in all Usenet posts, and using PGP email for
> normal day to day traffic. The failure of the second channel-flooding
> is especially notable: even people doing serious crypto hacking, with
> well established public keys, don't seem to PGP encrypt normal day to
> day traffic. It's just not convenient enough.

At one point I'd thought about setting up a "random" crontab on my
local machine to send out encrypted junk to remailers over the net via
a SLiRP connection.  It made a little more sense when I was connected
24/7.  I'm still planning on doing this sometime, probably during
Spring Break or this summer.  I don't know how useful it would be,
though.


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