rubberhose.com (was Re: NTK now, 2000-02-09) (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:24:44 -0500
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
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Subject: rubberhose.com (was Re: NTK now, 2000-02-09)

At 11:22 AM -0800 on 2/9/01, Danny O'Brien wrote:


>  Accusing us of "doting on my six year old childhood
>          peccadilloes", JULIAN ASSANGE, co-author of THE UNDERGROUND
>          and, we dotifully include, THE DAN FARMER RAP, directs our
>          attention as "citizen[s] of totalitarian England", to
>          RUBBERHOSE, his fine two-year-old toddler of a "deniable
>          encryption" system. In Assange's own sweet, twisted way,
>          Rubberhose is named after the decryption tactic it attempts
>          to defeat: Rubberhose Cryptanalysis, in which suspects are
>          exposed to repeated rounds of the "kick to the head" attack
>          until their password is revealed. Rubberhose thwarts this by
>          allowing a large number of encrypted messages to be stored
>          on the same drive, each encoded with a different password.
>          The total number of levels is unknown, so when Commandante
>          Plodista requests your passphrase, you can happily give him
>          the password to the lowest level (or three), confident that
>          noone can ever prove that this isn't *all* the data you have
>          on the drive. Along with StegFS, it's another recommended
>          RIP-bypasser. Unless you really are under risk of being
>          beaten up, in which case, we'll re-pose the FAQ: won't
>          rational torturers just beat you up *forever*? Anyone want
>          to pick up on the in-the-field research here?
>          http://www.rubberhose.org/
>                      - smart civil rights groups stick with Linux 2.2
>          http://www.rubberhose.org/current/src/doc/beatings.txt
>               - taking "prisoner's dilemma" out of labs, into prisons
>          http://www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1995_2/0194.html
>                                      - hold on, if he was six in 1995...

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