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Encryption is only for protecting message content. Nobody said that encryption will save you from enemy knowing who you are, where you are, who you talking to,

• jacquesm 5y ago
  And often that is just as valuable as the actual message content, if not more valuable because it allows for network analysis.
  • ChuckNorris89 5y ago
    >it allows for network analysis Like Nazis always ending their encrypted communications with 'Heil Hitler' making reversing the keys easier lol. Although, for modern encrypted telecoms, I doubt this is as easy.
    • jacquesm 5y ago
      That's something else, that's known plaintext analysis using cribs. If you know that a certain text may be present in the messages then you can try a bunch of different keys and stop searching if your decrypt contains that text to inspect for a 'hit'. Network analysis or traffic analysis is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis It allows for instance for the de-anonymization of network nodes based on known nodes and it allows for determining which nodes in the network are more important than others.