-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- qwerty@netcom.com (Xenon) writes:

There's a paradigm-shift needed here. When it clicks into place in one's mind, you will see why I am so adamant about Stealth-PGP, for rather than being a back-burner project, it is THE very thing that is most important for the defeat of Big Brother's Clipper chip and his wiretap proposals. It REALLY IS a "Stealth" technology. I'm sure there are already thousands in repressive countries who need it NOW, and if you don't call the USA a repressive country as well, I've got a burning Constitution and Bill of Rights for you burn your hands on.

Not everybody thinks India is a free country, but it is, more or less. The interesting thing about "needing Stealth PGP" is that you need it more in "free" USA, where Big Brother has the technology and political will to watch and blacklist you, as well as the political will of Bobby Ray's ilk. Most repressive countries are, on the other hand, not well equipped with hi-tech surveillance. In India, where I can telnet from at practically no cost due to a fairly up to date net, official policy for this "Educational" net states that mail, not supposed to be private, may be randomly inspected. However, I can send just about anything I want to and from anywhere (such as PGP, Phrack, and any sedition I might want to export), because *NOBODY WILL BOTHER* to inspect anything. And government security agencies who may have the technology to snoop couldn't be bothered with electronic traffic. In any case, if I was to hack for state secrets, presumably I'd find NSA archives more interesting than their local equivalant. The point is that nobody here will notice what encryption I use, and far from outlawing it, hardly anyone is aware of it. (I'm one the only person from India, and one of four from all Asia, to subscribe to this list. Pretty well hidden in the noise ;-) Just as in India, I'm not suspect if I encrypt a message, Xenon hopes that the NSA won't mind if *IT DOESN'T KNOW* that you've encrypted something. But the threshold of suspicion will change: with increasing use of Stealth-PGP, *ANY TRANSMISSION* of noise will be cause for honorary membership to the NSA watchlist. Of course, they may find it harder to prove that you did encrypt anything; but now they can't prove that you encrypted something criminal, as decryption is pretty hard. But they don't believe much in proof, do they? Rishab - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "What is civilisation rishab@doe.ernet.in, rishab@dxm.ernet.in but a ribonucleic Voicemail +91 11 3760335; Vox/Fax/Data 6853410 hangover?" H-34C Saket New Delhi 110017 INDIA - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLWJ5Lvw/vM8w8hLZAQESnwP+L9nuYtkRXQap5Ucr9dUWOfAFhQQeJO2S d5tHWkRbBEf8panzPO/W/5X/2BBPCoaoNEkqLpX11RHCVKBd8rrx4xaX5UJL9iTk 49s8c2jLEC2ZqJLneJd6DchZaNRwV9u4ns3M+55m7o3sYYZ0wdE9AgfpID9BGpfn r5cA7N+RXNg= =950h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----