On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Nelson Minar wrote:
As noble as "flood the detection channels" sounds, has it really ever succeeded? Do people who don't care about privacy day to day ever go through extra trouble to make other people's privacy easier? I can think of two public efforts to increase noise that have failed: putting Spook keywords in all Usenet posts, and using PGP email for normal day to day traffic. The failure of the second channel-flooding is especially notable: even people doing serious crypto hacking, with well established public keys, don't seem to PGP encrypt normal day to day traffic. It's just not convenient enough.
At one point I'd thought about setting up a "random" crontab on my local machine to send out encrypted junk to remailers over the net via a SLiRP connection. It made a little more sense when I was connected 24/7. I'm still planning on doing this sometime, probably during Spring Break or this summer. I don't know how useful it would be, though. -- |\/|ike Gurski mgursk1@gl.umbc.edu http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mgursk1/ finger or mail subject "send pgpkey" or "send index" Hail Eris! |Member, 1024/39B5BADD PGP Keyprint=3493 A994 B159 48B7 1757 1E4E 6256 4570| Team My opinions are mine alone, even if you should be sharing them. | OS/2