Re: [perpass] (Possibly Dumb) EMail Security Idea

[Patrick Pelletier <[e-mail]>]

On 9/4/13 2:14 AM, Brian Trammell wrote:

> I presume each chunk is (1) encrypted and (2) non-contiguous? Otherwise you have the problem that the information density and interesting-information-density in most email messages is unevenly distributed, and then you only really need some subset of the content to get the interesting information out.

This reminds me a little bit of what Tahoe-LAFS is doing, since they 
encrypt, then do erasure coding, and send the pieces out to different 
servers.  The only difference is that you're doing it with email instead 
of files.

On the other hand, if you don't want to encrypt, then you could solve 
the information density problem by using an AONT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-or-nothing_transform

Then each piece would mean nothing unless you had all the pieces.

--Patrick