integrating GPG with deniable steganography
Marlow, Andrew (London)
MarloAnd at exchange.uk.ml.com
Wed Mar 21 09:42:01 CET 2001
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> Subject: Re: integrating GPG with deniable steganography
> If someone sends you a message encrypted to a key that you really do not
> have... then you probably are out of luck, to put it mildly. There is no
> way to prove that you don't have the key! What a way to frame people!
[Marlow, Andrew (London)] That's right. That's why the first person
to receive
such a message was Jack Straw (the Home Secretary).
> Does the RIP bill has any safeguards against that?
[Marlow, Andrew (London)] No. None at all.
> This revolves around idea that anything that authorities believe is a
> ciphertext is indeed one.
[Marlow, Andrew (London)] Correct. The law should mention 'intent
to conceal'
but it doesn't.
> This has nothing to do with computers and
> everything to do with determination of who is a witch and who isn't.
> If you sink and die you weren't a witch. Otherwise you are a witch,
> then you shall be burned at stake. Just that simple.
>
[Marlow, Andrew (London)] Correct. Better stay out of the UK.
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