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(DIR) Post #ArzdFToBGPYjNU4O6C by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-12T23:01:13Z
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The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting. You can use encryption to keep secrets, but, in using encryption, may let others know that you even have a secret at all. So, the very best kind of encryption is both un-operable without a very large securely transported key AND not obviously (or even unobviously) encrypted at all.
(DIR) Post #ArzdYTrnGsOd3oouHI by fullyabstract@fosstodon.org
2025-03-12T23:04:38Z
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@futurebird Sending lots of apparently encrypted data that's actually noise might be a good move as well.
(DIR) Post #ArzdeRC67WtIVe9pei by anselmschueler@ieji.de
2025-03-12T23:05:41Z
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@futurebird Or you just encrypt everything all the time
(DIR) Post #ArzdkyZqupXJmbO1PU by gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz
2025-03-12T23:06:51Z
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@futurebird Sounds like steganography fits the bills. If I had anything I wanted to keep unobviously secret, it would be fun to have it encoded in a folder full of mundane-looking JPEGs.
(DIR) Post #Arzdz3V5PNRf6cs2gS by lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net
2025-03-12T23:08:57Z
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@futurebird That's actually the reason for encrypting everything.To protect what needs to be encrypted, and who really needs to encrypt their things.
(DIR) Post #ArzfoTHPQ8nPmYYPeS by jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
2025-03-12T23:29:34Z
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@futurebird Or you can just encrypt *everything*. Then you can have a laugh while they burn CPU cycles decrypting your shopping list.
(DIR) Post #Arzg0DveJxY7eAypRg by adrake@sfba.social
2025-03-12T23:31:59Z
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@futurebird one of the beautiful results from cryptography is that securely encrypted data is indistinguishable from random noise to anyone without the key. So anywhere there's naturally randomness, you can swap it out with encrypted data and nobody will be any the wiser.Plus as others have mentioned, if everyone encrypts everything, the fact that there is encryption going on is a lot less interesting. Seeing encrypted web traffic used to mean you were visiting a bank or something, now it just means you're using the web in 2025.
(DIR) Post #Arzg41hzhIqyuAPFvU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-12T23:32:47Z
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@jackwilliambell For internet traffic, maybe. But, if "everything" is encrypted functionally your workspace isn't.
(DIR) Post #ArzgmfEc6M36EbwsQS by Forbearance@mastodon.xyz
2025-03-12T23:40:48Z
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@futurebird this is why i encrypt everything i can find, to keep myself entertained
(DIR) Post #ArzhfTgmjHcELzGM64 by josephholsten@mstdn.social
2025-03-12T23:50:39Z
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@futurebird I long ago decided that the rampant spam on the unmoderated cyberpunks mailing list was really just cover noise protecting steganographically hidden messages
(DIR) Post #ArziyeJlXIism4CXTM by not2b@sfba.social
2025-03-13T00:05:22Z
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@futurebird Part of the solution is just to encrypt by default. Almost every wen page access uses https now, disks on computers and phones are encrypted. There are still plenty of gaps but if encryption is the default it isn't suspicious.
(DIR) Post #ArzmnLYjL7JzE74ChM by sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange
2025-03-13T00:48:10Z
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@futurebird 16 byte/128 bit is plenty for a symmetric encryption key. Not sure I would call that "very large".And also, you should encrypt everything, always. The real question is how you handle the keys, that is highly nontrivial.
(DIR) Post #ArzntvClp2DfTJUhnM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-13T01:00:35Z
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@Michkov I sometimes wonder if it'd be at all productive or helpful to create networks shaped like the kind of networks that attract the wrong kind of attention from the worst kind of people but that contain nothing. Just having encrypted traffic wouldn't be enough. There would need to be more signs that something was "going on."Inflatable tanks again, I guess.
(DIR) Post #As05rSOvk2iCjZ9lGS by amanda@an.errant.cloud
2025-03-13T04:21:43Z
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@futurebird if you encrypt everything buying stands out
(DIR) Post #As0eFiYoi3XyF8WLdQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-13T10:47:12Z
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@amanda buying? how so?
(DIR) Post #As0gh4ztb913YZMTfU by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-03-13T11:14:32Z
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@futurebird do what stegosaurus would have done: hide your encrypted data in ordinary looking data.
(DIR) Post #As0i0iPlMzrhGNO688 by beasom@mastodon.social
2025-03-13T11:29:13Z
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@futurebird @gregeganSF I made this exact argument when the Patriot Act went through and tried, extremely unsuccessfully, to convince friends and family to start using PGP for even routine communications
(DIR) Post #As0rDbXj82KDIsKk6K by rich@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-03-13T13:12:26Z
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@futurebird <reply redacted>
(DIR) Post #As1X7Ohw8KJ9pgpdfE by amanda@an.errant.cloud
2025-03-13T21:01:56Z
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@futurebird I hate autocorrect.
(DIR) Post #As39hRAyQMgxKTzBB2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-14T15:48:58Z
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@tedpavlic Oh geez I should have put a little something, that would have been very amusing.