From: Rolf Michelsen <Rolf.Michelsen@delab.sintef.no>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 07:20:49 PDT
To: Cypherpunks mailing list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: The un-BBS
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On Wed, 27 Apr 1994, Jim Sewell wrote:
> 
>   My contention is that a signature, while encrypted, is not encrypted
>   to obscure the meaning.  It says it is a sig, it is a sig, and contains
>   no other information that is not readily available (email addresses can
>   be included, but it is retrievable with a commonly available program PGP.)

A randomized signature or signature with random padding can be used as a 
subliminal channel...  (insert creepy music here :-)


-- Rolf



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