plausible deniability
Wei Dai
weidai at eskimo.com
Wed Jan 31 02:10:26 PST 2001
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:52:03AM -0500, dmolnar wrote:
> I just came across this PhD thesis in philosophy:
>
> "Cryptography and Evidence"
> Michael Roe
> http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/mroe/THESIS.PDF
Are you sure this is a thesis in philosophy? It seems to talk about the
rather practical concerns of non-repudiation and its converse, plausible
deniability. The paper reminds me of something I was wondering about: are
there any email security programs that offer plausible deniability as an
option? Sometimes you want to MAC a message with an authenticated
symmetric key instead of signing it in order to preserve plausible
deniability, but PGP for example doesn't seem to offer this.
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