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List:       gnupg-users
Subject:    Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????
From:       Atom Smasher <atom () smasher ! org>
Date:       2005-12-28 13:31:52
Message-ID: 20051228133155.42200.qmail () smasher ! org
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Eric wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 18:11 +0100, Johan Wevers wrote:
>> Atom Smasher wrote:

>>> i think they're more likely to use carrier pigeons than pgp.
>>
>> I've read that in Afghanistan they use couriers by horse who memorise 
>> the message. That makes it practically unintercaptable.
>>
>
> What about rubber hose cryptanalysis?
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it ~may~ be effective against password recovery in some forms of crypto: 
an attacker (torturer) would know when the password is revealed because a 
valid message is produced.

a courier with a photographic memory could give up countless "secrets", 
and none of them the ~right~ one. really, if you beat the crap out of 
someone long enough and hard enough, they'll admit to being osama bin 
laden.

off the top of my head, outguess <http://www.outguess.org> is the closest 
thing to a real crypto app with a decent "plausible deniability" feature.


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