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signatures are evaluated over the hash of the contents protecting integrity, the associated public key proves the provenance... I do remember some of the diplo
by DoctorOetker 8y ago
signatures are evaluated over the hash of the contents protecting integrity, the associated public key proves the provenance...
I do remember some of the diplomatic mails being scrubbed of identifying information of individuals (say names). This would have a low entropy, so it would seem easy to download the archives from WL, take an email with a singlle censored name, then bruteforce over alphabetic characters, and verify the hash signature. Unless WL has taken the precaution to censor at least x unpredictable bits (i.e. a single character in a name or word does NOT equate to 8 bits) where x is an infeasible bruteforce depth, in theory it should be possible to recover redactions by WL.
Edit: I may be conflating the scrubbing of names with the Snowden leaks, but I believe WL has also scrubbed some individual's nammes...