From: thug@phantom.com (Murdering Thug) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 21:49:43 EST And don't tell me they can build computers that can distinguish between a PGP file transmission and some hormone crazed 15 year old dork downloading the latest GIF of Cindy Crawford or a ZIPed ware. I've looked at hexdumps of GIFs and ZIPs and for all practical purposes they look about as random as PGP data. If the NSA can build a parellel computer that scans all the trunks in the U.S. simultaneously AND can tell the difference between PGP streams and ZIP/GIF file data streams, then I just might as well go and shoot myself right now. Er.... you might want to get your gun out..... the middle of hexdumps of GIF's and ZIP's and PGP files may look the same, but the file headers are quite distinguishing. If you want to hide encrypted data, each person needs to find their own way of doing it ---- if everyone hides it in the low bits of a GIF file, it would be very simple for the NSA to scan GIF files to see if the low bits looked like the header of a PGP file..... - Ted