-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Carl_Ellison@vos.stratus.com writes:
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor. - Machiavelli
That reminds me of my first reaction to CypherPunks: why would the government spend thousands of $$$ of supercomputer time & mathematician brains to see your miserable piece of information, when all they have to do is lock you up at the back of a countryside garage, beat the shit out of you, inject various chemicals into your blood until you spit out your secret key ? That was a bit harsh, but, going back to the essentials, a crypto system is as weak as its weakest link, isn'it ? Now that we've got them pgp, RSA and IDEA and whatnot, fine, we've built a 20 inches thick steel chain around our little secrets. Except that this marvelous piece of technology is held together with a hair strand: your brain. Where you key is kept, and where everybody assumes it's safe. Isn't time we take a look at another kind of cryptographic attack, the ancestor of which bore the delicate name of penthotal ? Nobody ever speaks of them chemicals that make you talk. But they exist, and as well as cryptography techniques developed fast recently, trust the government, those chemicals must have made a few advances. Like, for example making you tell what you don't want to and then make you forget about anybody asking. Or maybe I watch too many serials. Does anybody have informations about state of the art tell-us-you-story-pills ? - -zap -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCUAgUBLUX4+Sk+9PttYUp1AQEnsAP1GzsaUC6iMSM9g1HJPh15ygqYgwdHVce5 L90Z9k6VB5+WBseUMKMEE2RJkGTa1aXZPZR5JEcQeLoHV4yu4wb3u43GmJIib1w1 05GN4Y+2E+S33XY58LNaQksJjliOKI+6t9UksW8xkDdyKr2u62Lw/3Oh2YhZblJL GkVqQidrRg== =r75G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi.