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Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity

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Re: Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity

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Post by timtadh »

Despite the banality of this project. I think the idea itself could be interesting: That is, mapping your encrypted email into authentic looking text. Sending the text. Then your receiver would need to know that the text is encrypted (don't tell them in the email). This /might/ be a temporarily effective dodge against bulk storage of PGP encrypted emails.

Re: Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity

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Post by marbu »

timtadh wrote: post #2

Despite the banality of this project. I think the idea itself could be interesting: That is, mapping your encrypted email into authentic looking text. Sending the text. Then your receiver would need to know that the text is encrypted (don't tell them in the email). This /might/ be a temporarily effective dodge against bulk storage of PGP encrypted emails.

That is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure that it's actually doable. How would you do implement it? Moreover it seems to me that it would be likely not worth the work, because training some ML algorithm to detect this kind of messages would be always much easier than to design and implement this kind of mapping in the first place.

Re: Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity

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Post by TillE »

timtadh wrote: post #2

Despite the banality of this project. I think the idea itself could be interesting: That is, mapping your encrypted email into authentic looking text. Sending the text. Then your receiver would need to know that the text is encrypted (don't tell them in the email). This /might/ be a temporarily effective dodge against bulk storage of PGP encrypted emails.

It would be reasonably straightforward to generate encoded messages that are about as coherent as spambots plucking a series of random phrases from the web.

I don't know how you'd generate anything plausibly human, though, unless you're doing obvious steganography with whitespace or capitalization.

Re: Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity

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Post by Karunamon »

comboy wrote: post #5

Would be fun to switch from profanities to things like "tor NSA bitcoin PRISM GCHQ Snowden"

Basically a M-x spook version of the same thing.

Now that's ironic. Using code words supposedly designed to attract automated monitoring system attention which are actually themselves a form of code to an encrypted message.

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