Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-08-06 Thread David Marshall
Steven Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcel Popescu wrote: > > goat porn > > That's not as funny as you think it is. > > I used to joke at work about spending all my time looking at porn. > Then I started to receive porn by email at work. (Best guess is that > spammers scooped my name

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-25 Thread Tom Vogt
Marcel Popescu wrote: > > how about actually encrypting two texts, in such a way that they combine > > into one ciphertext, and depending on which key you choose, one or the > > other gets decrypted from that. > > I think the main problem is laziness; the user would have to find a suitable > "inn

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-25 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Tom Vogt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > how about actually encrypting two texts, in such a way that they combine > into one ciphertext, and depending on which key you choose, one or the > other gets decrypted from that. I think the main problem is laziness; the user would have

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-25 Thread Tom Vogt
Bill Stewart wrote: > >From: "Esteban Gutierrez-Moguel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> a solution that problem could be a cipher where a key (K1) decrypts the > >> ciphertext to the real text and a key (K2) decrypts the ciphertext to a > >> meaningful text, but not the real one. In that way if the polic

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-24 Thread Bill Stewart
>From: "Esteban Gutierrez-Moguel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> a solution that problem could be a cipher where a key (K1) decrypts the >> ciphertext to the real text and a key (K2) decrypts the ciphertext to a >> meaningful text, but not the real one. In that way if the police requires >> the key you ca

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-20 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Esteban Gutierrez-Moguel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a solution that problem could be a cipher where a key (K1) decrypts the > ciphertext to the real text and a key (K2) decrypts the ciphertext to a > meaningful text, but not the real one. In that way if the police requires

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-20 Thread Steven Furlong
Marcel Popescu wrote: > goat porn That's not as funny as you think it is. I used to joke at work about spending all my time looking at porn. Then I started to receive porn by email at work. (Best guess is that spammers scooped my name from usenet postings; no matter.) OK, so then I started joki

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-20 Thread Esteban Gutierrez-Moguel
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote: > > This is no big deal. Just keep all of your keys on a smart card or > > an iButton. When you get into trouble, drop it into the nearest > > sewer. "I don't know what happened to that card, your Honor; it was > > in my wallet yesterday." > You hav

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-20 Thread Adam Langley
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:56:09PM -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote: > It is also not at all impossible that the government could be pissed off by > your anarchist tendencies and plant some encrypted stuff on your computer > (like, for example, sending you encrypted mail with a forged "from" address >

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-20 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >You have to PROVE that you don't have it (and most likely that you didn't > >"lose" it on purpose), or go to jail for two years. > > True enough. However, in the case that the data is incriminating to > the point where you'd spend more than two ye

Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

2000-07-20 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Patrick Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is no big deal. Just keep all of your keys on a smart card or an > iButton. When you get into trouble, drop it into the nearest sewer. "I don't > know what happened to that card, your Honor; it was in my wallet yesterday." Y