From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 14:29:31 MDT
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>>One could download
>>the entire extropians archive and send out the entire thing with each
>>message. The receiver would be notified beforehand which words to
>>search for. The NSA would be overwhelmed. spike
>>
>
>Actually, that is not very secure. Running a diff between the archive
>and the post would reveal where the differences are, and then it would
>be just a matter of figuring out what differences are relevant.
>
If we randomly chose 10k messages out of the archive, with 10k random
differences inserted, we could defeat the above strategy.
Perhaps one could collect a number of internet archives and actually use
them as a sort of one-time pad, given a bit of cleverness supplied by
some of the privacy fans, such as Harvey et al. spike
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