What if the guy simply can't remember the key? You don't even need to be schizophrenic for that. The schizophrenia angle could work, however: Stego that key inside a video file from Disney, which itself has been encrypted. Claim, "This is the original version that Disney has been hiding from us that give marching orders to Satan's Army". They might stop right there. Hum...a question. Years ago we asked whether the presence of Stego in a photograph could be detected by alteration in the photo's spacial frequencies. The answer, I believe, was yes.* This would appear to me to be far harder computationally** to detect in video, particularly if the stego is in essence spread-spectrumed within the video stream. *: There seemed to be some fairly clear energy density in the stego photo's FFT that filtering agents could rapidly detect and then use to forward over to the Beltway area for future examination. **: I've argued that, although it may be impossible to have perfect uncrackability, making the task far harder computationally provides better cover for all of us. -TD
Subject: Re: UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files From: teddks@gmail.com To: eugen@leitl.org CC: info@postbiota.org; cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:03:10 -0500
I don't know if this man's bravery is due to his "schizophrenia" (seemed pretty normal to me, but I suppose this article is hardly an adequate source) or just good old-fashion badassery.
This would be a Cypherpunk Bingo dream: arrest for crimethink books, arrest for refusal to give up a key, maintaining silence in the face of prosecution, "the terrorists are going to use this", guilty-until-proven-innocent "nobody will know you don't have child porn", and finally:
One file encrypted using software from the German firm Steganos was cracked, but investigators found only another PGP container.
Beautiful.
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