plausible deniability

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:52:03AM -0500, dmolnar wrote:

I just came across this PhD thesis in philosophy:

"Cryptography and Evidence" Michael Roe http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/mroe/THESIS.PDF

Are you sure this is a thesis in philosophy? It seems to talk about the rather practical concerns of non-repudiation and its converse, plausible deniability. The paper reminds me of something I was wondering about: are there any email security programs that offer plausible deniability as an option? Sometimes you want to MAC a message with an authenticated symmetric key instead of signing it in order to preserve plausible deniability, but PGP for example doesn't seem to offer this.