13 May
1993
13 May
'93
4 a.m.
It occurred to me that determining whether a set of random bytes is actually a crypto message could be reduced to the halting problem. Given this, it would be theoretically impossible to prove that an uncrackable message was indeed a crypto message. The revelation here (for me, anyway) is that if arbitrary crypto were made illegal, the burden of proof would be on the prosecution which would have to crack the message (at least partially). Paul E. Baclace peb@procase.com