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Re: Dorothy and the four Horseman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Cox)
Fri Jun 6 16:55:15 1997
In-Reply-To: <199706061850.LAA08048@servo.qualcomm.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 15:53:00 -0400
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
From: Ben Cox <cox@transarc.com>
Cc: cme@cybercash.com, PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com, cryptography@c2.net
At 11:50 AM -0700 6/6/97, Phil Karn wrote:
>>I think I would have to rely on a defense of the form: "Sure, you decrypted
>>it to read >>Bomb the FBI Headquarters<< but I can demonstrate a decryption
>>that reads >>love and peace eternally.<<".
>
>Right. I can see it now: explaining concepts like "unicity distance" to
>a jury of twelve ordinary, nontechnical citizens...
That might not be easy, but I bet getting them to believe an
expert witness (who could say in no uncertain terms that neither
decryption was more probable than the other) would be much
easier.
-- Ben
