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To: semper_libertas
There are many ways to do this, depending on what you want to accomplish. Some are illegal, such as using chains of overseas proxies without permission of their owners. Others are legal, or at least not illegal. Things like public anonymizers, mail-to-news gateways, the Cyberpunk and Mixmaster systems, nymservers, Freenet, Crowds.

You need some technical sophistication to use these things succesfully.

3 posted on 05/29/2002 8:28:57 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user
"You need some technical sophistication to use these things successfully."

There is a very low-tech yet unbreakable method. You and someone agree on a book in both of your homes. You send a series of numbers that reference a page, paragraph, sentence, and letter or punctuation position. To break the code you must know the book title, which number is the page, which is the paragraph (if you use it), which number is the sentence, and which number is the actual character etc.. In using this method, repeating the same letter will generate a completely different sequence of numbers each time.

Unless you or the other person tells the government what book you are using they cannot break the code.

For example if I sent you 2,1,34,6,10,7,1,26,4,22,4,20,3,9,1,37,1,1 I doubt if any of our alphabet government agencies could tell you what I sent.

Sending a unique value say 78 would tell the person to change the order of page,paragraph,sentence,character. If you want to protect it further you could apply some encryption to it but that usually means you have to have a copy of the code somewhere and the whole purpose of this method is to prevent anyone from finding the encryption key.

The only caveat with this method is to choose a book or books that would be common to many homes not something unique like the collected wisdom of Hillary Clinton, which only has 1 blank page.

5 posted on 05/29/2002 9:00:49 AM PDT by Wurlitzer
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