Cyphertrivia
Alan Mason
vznquest at netcom.com
Tue Oct 5 21:59:10 PDT 1993
>
> OK, so if you were really paranoid, you wouldn't even let 'THEM' know you
> were using pgp.
>
> But... if you were only mildly paranoid, you would:
>
> 1. Break your message into several short blocks
>
> 2.. Encrypt them with your friends public pgp key in ascii format
>
> 3. Change the parts of the messages that say "BEGIN (END) PGP MESSAGE" to
> read "BEGIN (END) PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK"
>
> 4. Post them in an innocuous place and let the recipient know that they
> are there. When he/she decypts them, he/she doesn't even need to change
> "PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" back to "PGP MESSAGE". Thanks, Phil :).
>
> In this way, you can console your paranoia by telling it that while the
> cryptocops may know you HAVE pgp, they don't know you are using it
> to send messages.
>
> Trivial, I know, but hey - it was one of those trivial days........
>
>
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