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From:Matthew Garrett
Date:14 Aug 2000 at 23:22:20
Subject:Re: PGP and UUen/decode

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:29:14PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:

> But they can pull up to your house and get them to make you give your
> private key up, still. Encryption isn't a way of avoiding the bill, more a
> way to ensure that you'll be ensnared by it.

Sure it is. All you need is an encryption system that includes hashing it
against a completely innocent text in such a way that giving them one key
will produce an entirely innocent message, while using a different key
will give the real one.

Now, all we need is someone to write such a thing :)

> My effort to circumvent silly ISP monitoring schemes will be to set up my
> own mailserver when I get ADSL :)

My email already gets delivered to me from someone who isn't my main
service provider over an ssh tunnel, so things are already more difficult
than average :)



Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

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