[12549] in Cypherpunks
Re: The un-BBS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rolf Michelsen)
Wed Apr 27 10:24:32 1994
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 16:20:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rolf Michelsen <Rolf.Michelsen@delab.sintef.no>
To: Cypherpunks mailing list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <9404271349.AA04551@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM>
On Wed, 27 Apr 1994, Jim Sewell wrote:
>
> My contention is that a signature, while encrypted, is not encrypted
> to obscure the meaning. It says it is a sig, it is a sig, and contains
> no other information that is not readily available (email addresses can
> be included, but it is retrievable with a commonly available program PGP.)
A randomized signature or signature with random padding can be used as a
subliminal channel... (insert creepy music here :-)
-- Rolf
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