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It's often possible to distinguish random data from encrypted data using something like a chi square test. However, if you just encrypted random bytes, then it
by daturkel 13y ago
It's often possible to distinguish random data from encrypted data using something like a chi square test. However, if you just encrypted random bytes, then it would look just as encrypted as your real data (because it is). Alternatively, you could just encrypt spam emails (it'd be cute if a system like this encrypted and sent every spam email that you received).
- ronaldx 13y agoIdeally, encrypted data should be indistinguishable from random. I agree, this may not be true in practice. [Presumably, NSA is not collecting all sources of random data?]
- jessaustin 13y ago...system like this encrypted and sent every spam email that you received I wanted to like this proposal, but then I realized these encrypted spams have to be sent somewhere. Any ethical target would be too easy for "the bad guys" to filter. Oh well.