Re: the truth about encryption?

[Grant Bayley <gbayley@ausmac.net>]

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That's why steganography exists...

To hide otherwise compromising information in a stream of innocuous
material...

(http://the.wiretapped.net/security/steganography/)

Grant
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On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, scotartt wrote:

> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:35:14 +1100
> From: scotartt <scot@systemx.autonomous.org>
> Reply-To: hacktivism@tao.ca
> To: hacktivism@tao.ca
> Subject: the truth about encryption?
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> THE TRUTH ABOUT ENCRYPTION
> Cambridge University cryptography expert Ross Anderson says governments'
> efforts to keep encryption technology out of the hands of criminals and
> terrorists is misguided: "If I were to hold a three-hour encrypted
> conversation with someone in the Medellin drug cartel, it would be a dead
> giveaway. In routine monitoring, GCHQ (Britain's signals intelligence
> service) would pick up the fact that there was encrypted traffic and would
> instantly mark down my phone as being suspect. Quite possibly the police
> would then send in the burglars to put microphones in all over my house. In
> circumstances like this, encryption does not increase your security. It
> immediately and rapidly decreases it. You are mad to use encryption if you
> are a villain." (New Scientist 6 Nov 99)
> http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991106/confidenti.html
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