grarpamp writes: | > Thoughts? | | All moot. When someone walks into your office and hands | you a letter you have two choices... operate according to | their whim. Or publish the damn letter with whatever | redactions or lack thereof you feel are appropriate. Is it really your position that one's choice is to either emulate Mohamed Bouazizi or acquiesce? I will not do design off the cuff on a mailing list, but I'm certain that a steganographic keep alive is designable. If you (for all values of you) want to continue in the actual direction of design, I'll join with you in that. I have zero free time and I am not a crypto mathematician, but I can offer one tool (or so I think): http://geer.tinho.net/geer.yung.pdf wherein Moti and I show that it is possible to encode any arbitrary monotone logic in the structure of split keys. As always, I assume this list is monitored. Likewise, I assume that any technologic solution is both temporary and second best to the diminishment of government, per se. --dan