Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication

Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by Infernal on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:07PM (#28589748)

Well this is a terrifying idea. Is this a hypothetical or do we know of an instance where such a “key” was invented?

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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by aaa_____ on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:47PM (#28589934)

Most cop-tech is just plausible-deniability for jury who are not tech-aware. Dogs, polygraphs, informational pre-crime tools.

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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by hda2 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:31PM (#28589871)

In around 1900 i think.

It's simple for anyone to create an xor "key" for anything.

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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by Infernal on Monday September 20, 2021 @12:32AM (#28590407)

I phrased my comment poorly. Do we know of a case where cops or prosecutors have actually faked such a “key”? If so, it’s terrifying that you could have any encrypted data, with cops and their invented xor “keys” claiming your data is whatever they want it to be.

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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by ArneBab on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:37AM (#28591496)

Or that you could have unencrypted data, that cops could xor into illegal data.

I bet you’re just using those unencrypted images to hide evil stuff with steganography! We found illegal content by xoring our totally not invented xor "keys" with the noise in your JPEGs!

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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by swebs on Monday September 20, 2021 @05:03AM (#28591640)

I don't know of any widespread consumer encryption tools that use a one time pad. For comparison, a standard RSA key is 4kb.

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