Re: Encryption is like a locked suitcase

Ted Lemon (mellon@hoffman.vix.com)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:07:08 -0700

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It wouldn't be that hard to write a program that takes an arbitrary
sequence of bits and uniquely encodes them into a series of machine
instructions that actually execute and don't do anything surprising.
So you could have a working executable that hides encrypted data. At
some point Customs is going to start wondering why you have so many
executables, though, and why they're so big...

                               _MelloN_

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