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Anonymous
anon at anon.efga.org
Wed Dec 3 21:45:42 PST 1997
Unless there was decryption hardware in the monitor itself.
Then I suppose you'd have to video the screen as each new "always
encrypted" "totally secure" frame came up.
>
> On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> >
> > Persistent Cryptographic Wrappers (RightsWrapper) - No matter where the
> > digital document (financial newsletter, educational test, minutes from a
> > court proceeding, sensitive health care records, etc.) goes, no matter
> > how it gets there, whether it is used and then subsequently
> > redistributed, etc. the document is always encrypted. It is never left
> > decrypted and exposed even while it is being viewed.
>
> They have lost their mind. Since humans are notoriously bad at performing
> decryptions in their head in real time, whatever is sent to the display
> *must* be cleartext. Any competent programmer can grab it at that point.
>
> -- Lucky Green <shamrock at cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.
> "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"
>
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