Re: Preprocessing a highly redudant message before encryption

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:53:03 -0500, Mike Amling wrote:

Kind a weak example. Valerie (a spy with more experience than Alice)
would have shown Eve a 400k ascii text.

If you're going to avoid traffic analysis, you'd be sending a couple of
MBs of random junk to random people, every day, automatically.

"Bob? I don't know Bob. Is he signed up with the 'I want to participate
in the random-noise-to-confuse-traffic-analysis-group'? My computer
probably sent him some random junk automatically. I didn't have anything
to do with it!"

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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that worked ...A complex system designed from scratch never
works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over,
beginning with a working simple system.
-- Grady Booch

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