On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:10:25PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Nothing serious, just throwing a quick thought out... | | It has been mentioned that you should always use crypto. If you wait until | you actually have something private to send, then an adversary will know | exactly which message is important. Encrypting everything gives equal | suspicion to each message and nobody has the resources to attack all of your | mail. | | So, I was thinking that rather than just encrypt each message, why not just | keep a constant encrypted stream open? So, even when you are asleep, | computers at each node are bombarding each other with encrypted "junk" | files. Your noise to signal ratio would be phenomenal. | | The main problem to solve as I see it would be for legitimate recipients to | be able to determine when a message is real and not trash, without letting | an adversary know.
And then there's economics. Someone has to pay for that noise to signal ratio. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume