____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:24:44 -0500 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net Subject: rubberhose.com (was Re: NTK now, 2000-02-09) At 11:22 AM -0800 on 2/9/01, Danny O'Brien wrote:

Accusing us of "doting on my six year old childhood peccadilloes", JULIAN ASSANGE, co-author of THE UNDERGROUND and, we dotifully include, THE DAN FARMER RAP, directs our attention as "citizen[s] of totalitarian England", to RUBBERHOSE, his fine two-year-old toddler of a "deniable encryption" system. In Assange's own sweet, twisted way, Rubberhose is named after the decryption tactic it attempts to defeat: Rubberhose Cryptanalysis, in which suspects are exposed to repeated rounds of the "kick to the head" attack until their password is revealed. Rubberhose thwarts this by allowing a large number of encrypted messages to be stored on the same drive, each encoded with a different password. The total number of levels is unknown, so when Commandante Plodista requests your passphrase, you can happily give him the password to the lowest level (or three), confident that noone can ever prove that this isn't *all* the data you have on the drive. Along with StegFS, it's another recommended RIP-bypasser. Unless you really are under risk of being beaten up, in which case, we'll re-pose the FAQ: won't rational torturers just beat you up *forever*? Anyone want to pick up on the in-the-field research here? http://www.rubberhose.org/ - smart civil rights groups stick with Linux 2.2 http://www.rubberhose.org/current/src/doc/beatings.txt - taking "prisoner's dilemma" out of labs, into prisons http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1995_2/0194.html - hold on, if he was six in 1995...

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