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I wonder if they might try to claim that this applies to ROT26. It would not be much more of a stretch than their other interpretations of the law...
by betterunix 13y ago
I wonder if they might try to claim that this applies to ROT26. It would not be much more of a stretch than their other interpretations of the law...
- jiggy2011 13y agoGood point. Where does one draw the line between encryption,encoding and compression for example? What if a communication itself is not encrypted but contains encrypted elements, like maybe a session ID?
- betterunix 13y ago"Where does one draw the line between encryption,encoding and compression for example?" I am told that the FBI does not actually draw such a distinction when dealing with criminal messages. The term "null cipher" is used to refer to messages encoded in a non-randomized fashion that does not involve any secret key. I was being a bit sarcastic above, but honestly, I would not be surprised if the government tried to claim that base64 encoding counted as "encryption" in this situation.
- lurkinggrue 13y agoROT26 has some known vulnerabilities and there is a recommendation to move on to the much stronger ROT52.