[ExI] Encryption

[William Flynn Wallace]

JUst another ignorant idea from me?  Hope not.  What could happen?  Private
companies are now putting satellites in orbit.  I assume with gov. OK.
What is to stop another country from doing that and making use of it
available to all?  Now we have a means of communicating that is free of the
U.S., although of course they probably could hack it.  Or even a private
individual on his own polynesian island doing that?  At some point won't
there be too many things to monitor and no way to pass laws stopping any
encryption?  bill w

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:28 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *John Clark via extropy-chat
> *ubject:* Re: [ExI] Encryption
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> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:25 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
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> >> So what can a government do?  Investigate anyone who sends encrypted
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> >…Yes, or at least investigate anyone who doesn't use government approved
> encryption that has a backdoor in it that the government can use whenever
> they want…John K Clark
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> I have an idea on that which might work.
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> I mentioned earlier that we have bandwidth available that is too cheap to
> meter (how often in history is anything of value so abundant it is
> indistinguishable from free?) so we can get around the problem John
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> We have reams of text available on chat sites, news commentary sections
> and so forth, megabytes of text generated per second, which anyone can
> highlight, copy, paste, and boom you have megabytes of blather.  Just as
> messages can by embedded in a photo (at a ratio of 16 to 1 length of photo
> to length of message) anyone could embed a message encrypted by one-time
> pad in a text message at a ratio of 1000 to 1 and it would be
> undetectable.  It would start with reams of blather and a very slight tweak
> would leave it that way.
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> Start with a coupla K of message, such as this one, embed it in a coupla
> megabytes of pointless blather, encrypt that file using government-approved
> backdoor-enabled encryption.  Local tyrant decrypts your message and finds
> only a pile of commentary so commonly found everywhere on the internet,
> with no indication there is anything more in there.
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> Of course there is always the problem the local tyrant could beat it out
> of us.  But I don’t see society developing that way.
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