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rubberhose.com (was Re: NTK now, 2000-02-09)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Wed Feb 14 09:52:38 2001
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 11:22 AM -0800 on 2/9/01, Danny O'Brien wrote:
> Accusing us of "doting on my six year old childhood
> peccadilloes", JULIAN ASSANGE, co-author of THE UNDERGROUND
> and, we dotifully include, THE DAN FARMER RAP, directs our
> attention as "citizen[s] of totalitarian England", to
> RUBBERHOSE, his fine two-year-old toddler of a "deniable
> encryption" system. In Assange's own sweet, twisted way,
> Rubberhose is named after the decryption tactic it attempts
> to defeat: Rubberhose Cryptanalysis, in which suspects are
> exposed to repeated rounds of the "kick to the head" attack
> until their password is revealed. Rubberhose thwarts this by
> allowing a large number of encrypted messages to be stored
> on the same drive, each encoded with a different password.
> The total number of levels is unknown, so when Commandante
> Plodista requests your passphrase, you can happily give him
> the password to the lowest level (or three), confident that
> noone can ever prove that this isn't *all* the data you have
> on the drive. Along with StegFS, it's another recommended
> RIP-bypasser. Unless you really are under risk of being
> beaten up, in which case, we'll re-pose the FAQ: won't
> rational torturers just beat you up *forever*? Anyone want
> to pick up on the in-the-field research here?
> http://www.rubberhose.org/
> - smart civil rights groups stick with Linux 2.2
> http://www.rubberhose.org/current/src/doc/beatings.txt
> - taking "prisoner's dilemma" out of labs, into prisons
> http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1995_2/0194.html
> - hold on, if he was six in 1995...
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