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What is the likelihood that intelligent life develops encryption before radio communication and therefore any signals they send appear to be random noise? The
by bhawks 4y ago
What is the likelihood that intelligent life develops encryption before radio communication and therefore any signals they send appear to be random noise?
The Romans used encryption for military purposes and there is no hard precondition on developing broadcast communications before understanding the math behind cryptography. How improbable is it to imagine a society with deep end to end encryption communication?
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoHow improbable is it to imagine a society that doesn't need encryption? Clearly not happening on Earth, but hardly impossible elsewhere.
- mr_toad 4y ago> What is the likelihood that intelligent life develops encryption before radio communication We developed encryption before radio. It just wasn’t very good encryption by today’s standards. The problem is that your best encryption might be trivial to crack by a civilisation that’s thousands of years older than yours.