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I can't believe the defense wouldn't be able to present an expert witness / cross-examine the prosecution's on the distinctions between "encoding" and "encrypti
by ethbr0 5y ago
I can't believe the defense wouldn't be able to present an expert witness / cross-examine the prosecution's on the distinctions between "encoding" and "encrypting."
- Volker_W 5y agoIf Wikipedia tells you how to read something, it is not encrypted. If base64 is an encryption, then so is jpeg or *.docx .
- ethbr0 5y agoI guess base64 is cryptographically a substitution cipher with a public pad. Which... you'd think using a ~2000+ year old method in a known-harmful way would stretch the term.