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[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:49:45 EDT, "Throwaway1 at columbus.rr.com" said:

> Maybe there are things I do that I'd prefer to keep secret. Maybe there
> aren't. If there were, maybe I would try to protect ONLY those very few
> high priority items. For the rest, I'd do nothing to hide anything.

Of course, taking it a bit further, remember that the best reason for using
crypto for *everything*, important or not, is because if you only encrypt
the important 10%, that tells the opponent 2 things:

1) They can disregard the other 90%.
2) Even though they can't read the other 10%, they can apply traffic analysis
to it, and see where that 10% was going.

If you encrypt everything, they have to apply traffic analysis to everything,
and chase a lot of dead ends.

If you only tunnel *some* stuff through TOR, they know you have something
you consider important.  If you tunnel it *all* through TOR, they can't
tell what's important and what's not.

Whether tunneling it *all* through TOR gets you onto a "watch list of people
who are known to be trying to play with our heads" is a different question ;)
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