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Re: [openpgp] Reducing the meta-data leak

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Sat, 07 November 2015 20:35 UTC

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From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Bryan Ford <brynosaurus@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Reducing the meta-data leak
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On Sat, 7 Nov 2015, Bryan Ford wrote:

> I’m glad to see the metadata-leakage protection topic drawing some interest, including some healthy skepticism on whether it’s practical. :)
>
> I’ll try to summarize my scheme at least somewhat concisely, and include
> this in a draft-of-a-draft that I have in progress.  A bare-bones (i.e.,

If this is the "concise summary", I am not sure that I would want a
software implementing something this complicated in the critical security
path for anything I do.

-Ben

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