Jim Choate wrote:

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the solution is easy, if you accept a few limitations.

Yeah, like the elimination of choice and the implimentation of coercion through a 'do it my way or hit the highway' attitude.

Not acceptable.

as I said back then: if it's *my* remailer (or whatever) then I can darn well set the rules. if you don't like them, use someone else's resources. now, on the other hand, looking at things from a practical instead of ideological POV, almost every encryption used for e-mail shares certain characteristics, such as having a "block" of characters with little or no whitespacing, which is *very* different from normal text. the difference is so obvious that it takes a human a single glance to distinguish between the two, even if the cleartext is written in a language he doesn't understand. requiring that the cleartext follows this convention may limit the available choices, but it's still a *far* cry from "elimination of choice". as a matter of fact, I'd challenge you to come up with an encryption system that does: a) fail to satisfy the "block of characters" criterium b) is actually used by anyone for e-mail communications c) was not specifically designed to make this point