Destroying evidence (was "About 5yr. log retention")

Jim Choate ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Thu Dec 7 15:25:41 PST 2000



On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Sean R. Lynch wrote:

> Eek.  Sorry.  I meant the private key could be stored steganographically.
> And the public key need only be attached to your nym.  Now the trick is not
> leaving anything around that might be used to link you to your nym.

Ah, that makes more sense. Your point is a valid one.

I was thinking about this and the article about the RIP hack with these
'hidden' keys that supposedly can't be grabbed.

If this works it might also resolve the CFS pass-phrase issue at reboots.
This potentially opens up having a fully encrypted filesystem that
could only be brute forced.

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