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>it allows for network analysis Like Nazis always ending their encrypted communications with 'Heil Hitler' making reversing the keys easier lol. Although, for
by 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 agoThat'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.