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Re: Spoofing Clipper

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Koontz )
Thu Jun 2 20:05:43 1994

Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 17:00:05 PDT
From: koontzd@lrcs.loral.com (David Koontz )
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

>With enough of these traversing the ether, the chaff/wheat noise ratio
>goes down to where having a source identifier (ID in the LEAF) gets
>real hit or miss - to where it loses traffic analysis value.  Sort of
>growing weeds intentionally on the information superhighway.

If the adversary learns to distinguish false clipper transmissions, you
could always use a fake one to lull him into not listening further.

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