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- From: mcclary@netcom.com (Michael McClary)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: A new encryption problem?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.012621.22951@netcom.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 01:26:21 GMT
- References: <lfjmkiINNa74@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <7986@transfer.stratus.com>
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- In article <7986@transfer.stratus.com> cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
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- >The problem here is that both c and p must carry information and be
- >believable both in style and as a real communication. []
- > Since that cover communication needs to be
- >uniform in style, so as to fool the censors, you have very few choices.
- >This means that the bit rate is rather low...or, in other words, the
- >ciphertext will be much larger than the plaintext.
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- Alternatively, get a poet for your encyphering cypher clerk. B-)
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