17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
5:17 p.m.
What do you put in the Subject: line of an encrypted or anonymous message? We need something standard to prevent traffic analysis on this field. My suggestion is always to put "Subject: Re: your mail", since so much mail already has that, due to a feature of the popular mailer elm. If there is no standard, one could correlate Subject: patterns with people. Notice this message has been sent through "fmt" (and almost through "spell") to remove more nuances. Next we need an English-to-bland-English translator that smooths over individual language features (unless you're practicing stegonagraphy, then you want one that inserts them!)