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Re:"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't by a1a on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @10:42AM (#7553680)
How do you encrypt the hard drives?

I wouldn't trust some keys that had been lying around on an unencrypted hard drive for 1,2,10 years!

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Re:"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't by omh on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:22AM (#7553930)
If I was using one-time-pads I'd probably be using them because I didn't trust encryption, so "unencrypted" wouldn't matter here.

In real-world implementations I think the security is probably based around a large number of men with guns.

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Re:"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't by voidlogic on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:36AM (#7554016)
Exactly, men with guns secure the one time pad. The data sent using that pad is secure.

Nit: I would consider one time pad to be a method of encryption.

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Re:"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't by omh on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @12:23PM (#7554367)
Nit: I would consider one time pad to be a method of encryption.

Ah, true. But the encryption algorithm is much simpler to implement than most :-)

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Re:"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't by admax88q on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:29AM (#7553979)
You don't get it at all.
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