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"Military-Grade" encryption. In my experience, this involves writing passwords on daily orders and on the big white board in the ops room, giving them out over
by EliRivers 7y ago
"Military-Grade" encryption. In my experience, this involves writing passwords on daily orders and on the big white board in the ops room, giving them out over the phone to anyone with a suitably clipped voice, and laminated guides to zipping files with a password - from which everyone then copies the example password they can see in the laminated picture - physically tied to "the encrypting PC" so that nobody can wander off with the guide.
- nessunodoro 7y agoIt's this comment that should be laminated...
- kinleyd 7y agoSeconded.
- tialaramex 7y agoOn the other hand, we _could_ try to get to a world where "military grade" encryption means it's so fire and forget that actual military people won't fuck it up. Which would be very good for everybody else. Nobody calls a truck engine "military grade" because it's hard to maintain and only works on artisan made nitromethane, a "military grade" truck engine has to be maintained by an ADHD kid who got mediocre grades in shop class and run on whatever counts as "fuel" in the country the truck is passing through. Passwords for example, are a bad idea, so we want to design a system that doesn't have those. The password step being mindlessly replicated is a bad idea in large part because passwords are themselves a bad idea, if the instructions involved a system that randomly generated session keys the same mindless replication would ensure all recruits used randomly generated session keys - which would be safe.