IP: PUTTING LIMITS ON CARNIVORE Edupage, April 19, 2002

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PUTTING LIMITS ON CARNIVORE
Alex Iliev, a graduate student at Dartmouth College, this week
presented a proposal to the Privacy Enhancing Technologies workshop in
which he outlines a method to keep electronic monitoring within defined
limits. Electronic surveillance, including the FBI's Carnivore
application, typically collects all data flowing through a network,
though legal warrants usually only allow it to look at some of what is
collected. Iliev's approach would involve collecting and encrypting
the traffic on a network and placing it in a "vault." When law
enforcement or other officials request data, the vault would only
release the appropriate information, eliminating the possibility of a
"fishing expedition." The program Iliev developed uses an IBM 4758
cryptographic coprocessor, considered extremely secure and meeting the
highest standard for security of the U.S. government.
Wired News, 18 April 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,51917,00.html

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