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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 93 22:09:57 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Another application for stego (was POISON PILL)
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Matthew Gream:
> ....if you have something
> you _don't_ want found, then simply encrypting it leaving it sitting on 
> your system is probably not going to work. You may decide not to answer
> any questions about it, you may refuse and so on, but they are going to
> want the magic little key and keep pressing (maybe while you are under
> oath). To prevent any of this occuring, the best approach (in my mind) is
> to encrypt it into a form that will never be suspect as anything more than
> harmless, trivial, information.

Interesting: an application of steganography that is quite useful
even where crypto is legal.