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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Christopher_C_Lapp
- From: Christopher_C_Lapp@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Protecting Commerical info with virtual reality
- Message-ID: <73439@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 13:37:15 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: usa
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- A cover-plaintext encrypt is a topic of discussion used to create a
- virtual reality which conceals a true encrypted dialogue.
- Plaintext encryption allows the encrypting parties to use two
- channels of discourse- the phony channel which a skilled
- adversary will see when he decrypts, and the real, uncrackable
- channel that the phony channel represents. I suggest for
- concealing commercial and industrial information, that the
- conversing parties rifle their files for every bad and impractical
- idea their respective R&D departments have rejected. These
- ideas and all of the information filed with the ideas can be used to
- create a phony dialogue about the errant technology, which would
- conceal the real dialogue and technical information being
- exchanged. Using controlled plaintext encryption, it is possible,
- using rule based expert systems and adequate discourse structure
- to create a fully encrypted artificial dialogue that contains all of
- the encrypted information. Thus, when the clever adversary
- decrypts PGP 2.0 or DES or whatever, the adversary will only
- see an involved discussion about technical concepts that only after
- involved investigation will prove to be fruitless. This is how
- technical information will be concealed in the future.
- Any comments?
-