Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack

Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:45PM (#10583107)

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.

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by jacquesm on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:54PM (#10583871)

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.

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by marcosdumay on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:06PM (#10584668)

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.

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @12:04AM (#10586018)

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.

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