[1939] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Speaking of rubber hoses [was Re: Storage encryption tools]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Wed Dec 10 23:08:37 1997
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:54:32 -0800
To: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>, "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <wxd8j51gwa.fsf@profane.iq.org>
At 12:12 AM 12/11/97 +1100, Julian Assange wrote:
>
>Speaking of rubber hose cryptography, here is a copy of some recent
>correspondence concerning that subject:
>
>
>I have designed a `cryptographically deniable' (other wise known as
>rubber-hose-proof - a `rubber hose' being the beating weapon of choice
>for pass-phrase extraction) file system. the file system has 0-n keys,
>each of which divulges different data. This is essence of the
>deniability scheme, whereby one can divulge the "duress" key which
>will only decrypt pre-meditated "duress" information, i.e love letters
>pertaining to some illicit, but otherwise harmless liason, as opposed
>to Russian SS30 launch codes. The file-system has the following
>property:
>
I've got a sketch of a similar plan in
http://rattler.otc.net/Crypto/MyDocs/Decoy.doc
If you compress cargo & decoy you may not have to explain the still-hidden
cargo-message.
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