Peter Breton <pbreton@cs.umb.edu> writes:

In using encrypted communications, how does one avoid the problem of calling attention to the message BECAUSE it is encrypted? "If he went to the trouble of coding it, there MUST be something in there!!" Granted that if everyone begins encrypting, this problem will vanish... are there practical solutions in the meantime? (eg, Codes that look like plaintext?)

Here's an interesting solution... You can program a message filter to add extract letters to each PGP character to make it a word. I'm sure you could find any database of words and have it randomly make first letters... it'd be pretty simple... and then the receiver would just take every letter followed by a space... and if you wanted to be ultra-sneaky (who, us) you could have null words that change conditions in the letter... like switching to the second letter in the word, or skipping the next word altogether... but what to do with no-letter PGP codes... ok, the first TWO letters of the word indicate a character... sort of like a byte... hey, I think I might just write this sucker... Code will follow! carpe crypto +-------Matt-Willis--------------------------------+ | Matt Willis ASTMWILL@STETSON.BITNET | elsewhere: | Matt Willis Head of the Underground | mwill@mindvox.phantom.com | Matt Willis Robotech PBM List | +-------Matt-Willis--------------------------------+ "Absolutely alone in awareness of the mechanism." -Agrippa by WG