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Cyphernomicon 19.7

Appendices:
Glossary Items


   19.7.1. message pools --
   19.7.2. pools -- see "message pools."
   19.7.3. cover traffic --
   19.7.4. padding -- see "message padding."
   19.7.5. message padding --
   19.7.6. latency --
   19.7.7. BlackNet -- an experiment in information markets, using
            anonymous message pools for exchange of instructions and
            items. Tim May's experiment in guerilla ontology.
   19.7.8. ILF -- Information Liberation Front. Distributes copyrighted
            material via remailers, anonymously. Another experiment in
            guerilla ontology.
   19.7.9. digital mix --
  19.7.10. FinCEN -- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
  19.7.11. true name -- one's actual, physical name. Taken from Vernor
            Vinge's novel of the same name.
  19.7.12. mix --
  19.7.13. TEMPEST --
  19.7.14. OTP --
  19.7.15. Vernam cipher --
  19.7.16. detweiler -- verb, to rant and rave about tentacles that are
            destroying one's sanity through crypto anarchist thought
            control. Named after L. Detweiler. "He's just detweilering."
  19.7.17. remailer --
  19.7.18. Stego --
  19.7.19. incipits -- message indicators or tags (relates to stego)
  19.7.20. duress code -- a second key which can decrypt a message to
            something harmless. Could be useful for bank cards, as well
            as for avoiding incrimination. A form of security through
            obscurity, and not widely used.
 

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