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Essentially, a computational time salt.
by snowwrestler 4y ago
Essentially, a computational time salt.
- sandworm101 4y agoThere are a dozen names for it. In the intelligence world, if you know that the enemy is listening on an unencrypted communications pipe, but you cannot afford to stop using that pipe, you throw random junk down the pipe until they cannot tell real from fake.
- IncRnd 4y agoExcellent point. In this case, the name used here is masking, referring to what is called data masking, and the reference was to adding noise. There are other operations(as you point out) that could also be used (substitution, shuffling, etc.).