Re: Does encrypted equal safe?
At 01:28 PM 1/17/95 -0800, Eric Hughes wrote:
... Meaning is subjective. If I see encrypted text, am I to be held responsible for having seen through an encryption for which I hold not the key? Merely because someone knows a transformation into a disapproved form does not mean that I do. ...
Which is exactly why the encrypt on receipt or decrypt on delivery ideas won't work. You have to be provably ignorant of the data. --Paul J. Ste. Marie pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com
On Tue, 17 Jan 1995, Paul J. Ste. Marie wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 18:55:30 EST From: Paul J. Ste. Marie <pstemari@erinet.com> To: Eric Hughes <eric@remailer.net>, cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Does encrypted equal safe?
At 01:28 PM 1/17/95 -0800, Eric Hughes wrote:
... Meaning is subjective. If I see encrypted text, am I to be held responsible for having seen through an encryption for which I hold not the key? Merely because someone knows a transformation into a disapproved form does not mean that I do. ...
Which is exactly why the encrypt on receipt or decrypt on delivery ideas won't work. You have to be provably ignorant of the data.
I must disagree. This hinges on the REASON for encrypting the data. In my model, data that arrives at the haven unencrypted is unwelcome, and is encrypted to be used as traffic "noise," not for security. Any unencrypted data is undesireable, it opening the door to kiddieporn by mail tactics. (Government sends user A kiddie porn, then arrests user A for kiddie porn possession.) An automatic encryption of all unencrypted data, the key to which is randomly generated and destroyed, allows the traffic to foil analysis, while prevents the operator from being subjected to plant frames. Decrypt on arrival is hardly defenseable in this context of course.
--Paul J. Ste. Marie pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com
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... Which is exactly why the encrypt on receipt or decrypt on delivery ideas won't work. You have to be provably ignorant of the data.
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