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John Denker jsd at av8n.com
Tue Jan 4 12:41:12 PST 2005


Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5
To: Udhay Shankar N <udhay at pobox.com>
Cc: cryptography at metzdowd.com
Subject: Re: Conspiracy Theory O' The Day
Sender: owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com

Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> I just got a batch of spam: perfectly justified blocks of random-looking
> characters. Makes me wonder if somebody is trying to train Bayesian
> filters to reject PGP messages.

Another hypothesis:  Cover traffic, to defeat traffic analysis.

The procedure:  send N copies.  N-M of them are spam, sent to uninterested
parties.  The other M parties are the intended recipients.  Provided N>>M,
and other mild restrictions, they achieve plausible deniability.

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