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"Bluffing." It takes zero effort to distribute a a few hundred gigabytes of encrypted random data, relative to the amount of investigation and speculation as to
by countingteeth 10y ago
"Bluffing." It takes zero effort to distribute a a few hundred gigabytes of encrypted random data, relative to the amount of investigation and speculation as to what if anything is in those files. They are called "insurance." Assange/Wikileaks wanted to deter actions being taken against him.
Seems to me as likely as not that there is nothing really there.
- appleflaxen 10y agothe good news is that you don't even need to encrypt your data, if they are random to start with.
- amelius 10y agoThat might be tricky. An encrypted file may have some properties a random file does not have in general.
- Ao7bei3s 10y agoNo, unless the algorithm is broken. Ciphertext indistiguishability[1] is a basic requirement for any encryption scheme. All modern ciphers are designed to make that hard. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishing_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishing_attack
- amelius 10y agoYes, but you remove that attack vector simply by encrypting a random file instead.
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