chaffing and winnowing + gpg?

Werner Koch wk at isil.d.shuttle.de
Fri Jun 26 10:41:34 CEST 1998


Sen Nagata <sen_ml at eccosys.com> writes:

>   have you read the following rivest paper:
>   
>     http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt

I know about this.

>   i think it would be very interesting to have a way of doing this in
> gnu pg -- it's seems pretty easy conceptually.

 - It does not fit very well into the structure of gnupg.
 - It increases the message size
 - Ron Rivest proposed this scheme for political reasons: to show that
   all these export restrictions are nonsense.


Werner





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