From: Alan Mason <vznquest@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 21:59:10 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Cyphertrivia
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> 
> OK, so if you were really paranoid, you wouldn't even let 'THEM' know you
> were using pgp.
> 
> But... if you were only mildly paranoid, you would:
> 
> 1.  Break your message into several short blocks
> 
> 2.. Encrypt them with your friends public pgp key in ascii format
> 
> 3.  Change the parts of the messages that say "BEGIN (END) PGP MESSAGE" to
> read  "BEGIN (END) PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK"
> 
> 4.  Post them in an innocuous place and let the recipient know that they
> are there.  When he/she decypts them, he/she doesn't even need to change
> "PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" back to "PGP MESSAGE".  Thanks, Phil :).
> 
> In this way, you can console your paranoia by telling it that while the
> cryptocops may know you HAVE pgp, they don't know you are using it
> to send messages.
> 
> Trivial, I know, but hey - it was one of those trivial days........
> 
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