"PGP-Scape"? (was Re: Our "New Order")

jimbell@pacifier.com wrote:

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> >Methinks the time is right for a "PGPScape" web browser.
[..]

> Let me see if I understand  this concept correctly.  The remote site would
> pre-encrypt the transmitted data, so that when received it could be
> decrypted by the requestor according to his (or a temporarily chosen, to
> avoid disclosing the actual recipient.) public key, so as to disguise both
> the material and perhaps also the actual requestor?

Something like that, yes.  Anything to where someone watching cannot 
tell what a person is reading from a web site... even better if one 
cannot tell who is reading it. Anonymizing proxies would also be 
nice.

There's also less worry about secure transactions, since if 
everything's encrypted it's harder to tell if a transaction is taking 
place, viewing porno or subversive or religious, literature,  or if
you're just reading something mundane.

So much for vaporware, though.

> Excellent idea!

So is fast-than-light travel, but only if it's implemented.

Rob.
 
--- "Mutant" Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>

Send a blank message with the subject "send pgp-key"
(not in quotes) for a copy of my PGP key.

> There's also less worry about secure transactions, since if 
> everything's encrypted it's harder to tell if a transaction is taking 
> place, viewing porno or subversive or religious, literature,  or if
> you're just reading something mundane.

I think I must be missing something here.  Aren't you describing an SSL 
web server?  Different algorithms, but basically the same idea?

> So is fast-than-light travel, but only if it's implemented.

Netscape 2.0 is out for real -- everyone can now pick their certs.  GAK 
just got harder.