The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting.
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The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting.
You can use encryption to keep secrets, but, in using encryption, may let others know that you even have a secret at all.
So, the very best kind of encryption is both un-openable without a very large securely transported key AND not obviously (or even unobviously) encrypted at all.
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The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting.
You can use encryption to keep secrets, but, in using encryption, may let others know that you even have a secret at all.
So, the very best kind of encryption is both un-openable without a very large securely transported key AND not obviously (or even unobviously) encrypted at all.
Or you can just encrypt *everything*. Then you can have a laugh while they burn CPU cycles decrypting your shopping list.
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Or you can just encrypt *everything*. Then you can have a laugh while they burn CPU cycles decrypting your shopping list.
For internet traffic, maybe. But, if "everything" is encrypted functionally your workspace isn't.
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The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting.
You can use encryption to keep secrets, but, in using encryption, may let others know that you even have a secret at all.
So, the very best kind of encryption is both un-openable without a very large securely transported key AND not obviously (or even unobviously) encrypted at all.
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The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting.
You can use encryption to keep secrets, but, in using encryption, may let others know that you even have a secret at all.
So, the very best kind of encryption is both un-openable without a very large securely transported key AND not obviously (or even unobviously) encrypted at all.
@futurebird 16 byte/128 bit is plenty for a symmetric encryption key. Not sure I would call that "very large".
And also, you should encrypt everything, always. The real question is how you handle the keys, that is highly nontrivial.
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@futurebird So just send lorem ipsum with the highest end encryption and loose the keys? That's true chaotic
I sometimes wonder if it'd be at all productive or helpful to create networks shaped like the kind of networks that attract the wrong kind of attention from the worst kind of people but that contain nothing. Just having encrypted traffic wouldn't be enough. There would need to be more signs that something was "going on."
Inflatable tanks again, I guess.
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@futurebird 16 byte/128 bit is plenty for a symmetric encryption key. Not sure I would call that "very large".
And also, you should encrypt everything, always. The real question is how you handle the keys, that is highly nontrivial.
@sophieschmieg @futurebird I don't agree with always encrypting things. A case in point is that in the UK, if you fail to hand over your encryption keys, you can be jailed for each such refusal (yeah, no such thing as double jeopardy there). And if that file was just random data you saved for testing/shits and giggles? You can never prove that it isn't an encrypted file....
If you do feel that everything should be encrypted, at least use a deniable encryption scheme.
(I've said too much)
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The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting.
You can use encryption to keep secrets, but, in using encryption, may let others know that you even have a secret at all.
So, the very best kind of encryption is both un-openable without a very large securely transported key AND not obviously (or even unobviously) encrypted at all.
@futurebird do what stegosaurus would have done: hide your encrypted data in ordinary looking data.
