Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2004

--- "R.A. Hettinga" wrote: At 11:41 PM -0600 12/14/04, Bruce Schneier wrote:

The theory is that eventually the defender will

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reach the end of his memorized story, and that the attacker will then notice the subtle changes in the defender as he starts to make up answers.

Not necessarily. The difference here is that Bad_Guy is visiting the country for the first time. Now, there are fewer questions to ask. The idea is Mr.Bad_Guy gives minimal information there by restricting the questions that can be asked. Its just that the Bad_Guy should be trained to give out least information. That way there is no need to remember hundreds of answers. Sarad. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250