Encryption without encryption - from Ron Rivest

17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
In a paper entitled "Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption," Ron Rivest describes a method of transmitting a document that gives an evesdropper no information about the content of the document. <http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt> "Winnowing does not employ encryption, and so does not have a``decryption key.'' Thus, the usual arguments in favor of ``keyrecovery'' don't apply very well for winnowing. As usual, the policydebate about regulating technology ends up being obsoleted bytechnological innovations. Trying to regulate confidentiality byregulating encryption closes one door and leaves two open(steganography and winnowing)." Martin Minow minow@apple.com
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