David Banisar <Banisar@washofc.cpsr.org> quotes:

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(1) Is feeding public data or telephone networks with crypted data illegal or those who posted articles on the subject were just wishing it were made illegal ???

One might ask that they prove it is encrypted and not merely garbage your pumping down the line to defeat traffic analysis attacks. I dont think it's illegal so send garbage down a line assuming your paying for it and noone is being defrauded by your use of the medium. If you have good enough cryptography they cant prove it's encrypted. If they managed to decode it to something that looks like text but isnt the original cleartext then they are just grabbing at straws and not 'decrypting'. If you choose to put the "standard" bytes in front and behind every block to make it *look* like it's encrypted with a well known algorithm thats your business. To me proving it's encrypted amounts to decrypting it which is what your trying to protect against. If they can prove the algorithm is weak then you can just pay the fine and choose another method. Mark mark@coombs.anu.edu.au