GAK-hostile applications (Re: DTI Policy Response)

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Wed, 29 Apr 1998 03:42:30 +0100


Adam Back writes:

> What we need in the way of GAK hostile applications to combat these
> government communication key grabbing attempts is some GAK-hostile
> communications software.
> 
> So we could use forward secrecy and textual steganography.

I had a brief try at this a while ago and failed to code a DH exchange
using 'cryptlib'.  I've had a bunch of things keep me away from it lately,
but I'll try again in SSLeay - for easy integration into mixmaster.

> Also Ian Brown and I have a paper on forward secrecy approaches for
> email communications, perhaps he can post a URL.

I'd like to see this.

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