Illicit images  

 

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This web site displays thumbnail-linked galleries of images collected from the internet. The pixel data in each image was enciphered using the strongest cryptographic algorithm.

Great care was taken to insure that the source images can not be recovered, especially through coercive methods. The images were collected in a "clean-room" environment from various deeply linked locations using a web browser with its URL display areas obscured from view and with image display support disabled. An encrypted anonymizing service was also used to insure that no useful ISP or similar logs were recorded during collection.

Each image was selected based on its promotional context and enciphered using a unique properly randomly generated key. The keys existed only long enough to perform the encryption.

The encrypted images were transferred to the web site, and finally the hard drive in the computer used for collection and processing was destroyed. The source images were never viewed by the artist.

Greg Sidal 2000-2001