What the Most Secure Email in the Universe Would Look Like

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/05/what-most-secure-email-universe-would-look/84247/

By Patrick Tucker
Defense One
May 12, 2014

Say you wanted to send an email more secure than any message that had ever 
been transmitted in human history, a message with absolutely no chance of 
being intercepted. How would you do it?

You may have encrypted your message according to the highest standards, 
but encryption doesn’t guarantee secrecy. The fact that you sent it is 
still detectable. An intercepting party in possession of just a few clues 
such as your identity, the receiver’s identify, the time of the message, 
surrounding incidents and the like can infer a great deal about the 
content of the message in the same way that the NSA can use your metadata 
to make inferences about your personality. You need to conceal not just 
what’s in the message but its very existence.

The answer? Make your message literally impossible to detect. A team of 
researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Raytheon 
BBN Technologies led by Boulat A. Bash have created a method for doing 
just that, cloaking electronic communications so that the communication 
can’t be seen. They explain it in a paper titled Covert Optical 
Communication.

[...]

--
Subscribe to InfoSec News
http://www.infosecnews.org/subscribe-to-infosec-news/