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since you can use it to do nested encryption. All that's needed is to hack it so that it implements link encryption (i.e., send a constant stream of random data in between keypresses). ... You could just send a stream of some uncomon ascii character, which you filter out on the receiving end (if you wanted to this right, you could add a simple escape mechanism for actually passing that character).

To avoid flooding the network and also bringing the machines on which its running to its knees, you'd probably want to add a bandwidth-choke mechanism to run the white noise at some reasonable rate. You'd have to limit the real traffic output to the same rate. Link encryption over a broadcast network is a tricky business.

I wonder if Matt has the time and interest do this... If not then I guess I can try, but I've never done real crypto programming before...

For the next couple of months, I have absolutely no free hacking time. Things on the stack include: - ESM 1.0 - Diffie-Hellman encrypting and authenticating Telnet (almost ready...) - CFS 1.3 - The course - The book - My real work So I don't even have the time to figure out whether I have the interest. -matt