Re: crypto wish list (was Re: A "RIGHT" to strong crypto?)

[azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)]

>> Where is a fully functional and secure "stealth PGP"?
>
>PGP stealth 2.01 beta is at: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/stealth/
>
>It is not release quality.
>
>I've been meaning to fix that for a while now, a release version will
>be out RSN.
>
>Do you, or anyone else who is interested see any advantage in having
>stealth functionality integrated into PGP, say as a patch for PGP263i
>/ mit PGP262?  Not that hard to do, if there's any interest for it to
>be integrated.
>
>Zbigniew Fiedorowicz <fiedorow@math.mps.ohio-state.edu> added stealth
>and SHA1 support directly to a MAC version of PGP.  The key words `fat
>mac pgp' in a www search engine would probably find it.  Or `Zbigniew
>pgp'?

Best to use <http://128.146.111.31/~fiedorow/PGP/#sha1>

>
>> Where are anonymous and encrypted WWW clients and hosts which permit
>> chaining?
>
>Folks working on this?

The only person I know of to announce such a project was Ray Cromwell. His
Decense project was discussed on this list briefly in February.  I believe
the source is still posted at <http://www.clark.net/pub/rjc/decense.html>.
I've tried to contact Ray to get an up date on progress, but without
results.

The shortcoming of Ray's approach is that it requires intermediate servers
to re-route all client-server packets and therefore someone must provide
that, considerable, bandwidth for free or fee.

If someone were to set up a real-time BlackNet it could provide a superset
of Decense and also offer considerably improved anonymity.  I've heard some
months ago that such a project is under consideration.



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