In a project similar to Wikileaks, ICIJ comments on tools it used to secure its team-based project work: "ICIJbs team of 86 investigative journalists from 46 countries represents one of the biggest cross-border investigative partnerships in journalism history. Unique digital systems supported private document and information sharing, as well as collaborative research. These included a message center hosted in Europe and a U.S.-based secure online search system. Team members also used a secure, private online bulletin board system to share stories and tips." "The project teambs attempts to use encrypted e-mail systems such as PGP (b Pretty Good Privacyb) were abandoned because of complexity and unreliability that slowed down information sharing. Studies have shown that police and government agents b and even terrorists b also struggle to use secure e-mail systems effectively. Other complex cryptographic systems popular with computer hackers were not considered for the same reasons. While many team members had sophisticated computer knowledge and could use such tools well, many more did not." http://www.icij.org/offshore/how-icijs-project-team-analyzed-offshore-files hattip to Lynn Wheeler's lynn'o'gram. iang. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE