Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At...
by Dylan16807 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:45PM
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You can set the entropy to any amount you want. You need to consider encryption methods that put in at least a bit of effort to hide themselves. It could select random phrases and pretend to be a spambot.
Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At...
by jacquesm on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:54PM
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Or it could look like the output of a Markov chain sentence generator on the topic of religion and post the messages in some well-known forum.
Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At...
by marcosdumay on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:06PM
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Well, where's the boundary between cryptography that hides itself and stenography? Is there one?
If you include stenography, yes, it's certainly not easily recognizable. I don't think good stenography can be recognized at all, but that's not my area and I've got people contradict me at this (without further info), thus I'm not sure.
Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At...
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @12:04AM
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There's not much of a boundary, but that wasn't exactly the point I meant to make. You can do something like encode as ASCII 0s and 1s and have low entropy without that hiding anything.
Yes, measured data and unmarked compressed data have this same property, as do actual random data. But is does not look like 9 nines of false positive rate are a concern to those people.