[ExI] Encryption

[William Flynn Wallace]

So what can a government do?  Investigate anyone who sends encrypted
messages?  I suppose you can battle that by sheer numbers of people doing
it.  I remember reading in Heinlein that when a government issued id cards
to everyone which were required to live in the society, it was time to move
on.   bill w

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 8:57 AM Kunvar Thaman via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Consider a photograph made with a standard phone with 16 bit color.  One
>> could take that photo, encode a message in the least significant bit.  The
>> change in the photograph would be impossible to detect.  There is no way to
>> prove that there is a message in that LSB.  Of course the message is 16
>> times longer than the unencrypted message, but that shouldn’t matter in our
>> times of abundant bandwidth.
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> Nice example. Yes, the governments can try to put restrictions on
> companies, but even now there are ways to encrypt messages such that even
> if quantum computers are there, they won't be able to crack the messages.
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> I'm not aware of what's going on in China other than that they use Deep
> NNs for facial recognition, somewhat similar to 1984's Big Brother's party.
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> (Funny story - I like to ask my friends whether they'd ever give the
> government their photograph and personal identification data, and they're
> almost always like "NO" but then I tell them that they all have passports.
> Que the look of surprise.)
>
> Everything is information - the bits of information are indestructible -
> everything theoretically could be used to encrypt messages.
>
> &Kunvar
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 7:52 PM 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
>> *Subject:* [ExI] Encryption
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>> Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups
>> <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT>
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>> It seems that governments just don't like encryption.... China has long
>> been on the anti-encryption bandwagon and now India has jumped on too and
>> wants to stop civilian use of it…
>>
>> John K Clark
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>> Technology has come to our rescue.
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>> Consider a photograph made with a standard phone with 16 bit color.  One
>> could take that photo, encode a message in the least significant bit.  The
>> change in the photograph would be impossible to detect.  There is no way to
>> prove that there is a message in that LSB.  Of course the message is 16
>> times longer than the unencrypted message, but that shouldn’t matter in our
>> times of abundant bandwidth.
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>> Not only could encrypted messages be sent in such a way that they look
>> like ordinary photos, it could be completely secure if encrypted using a
>> one-time pad on a computer not connected to the internet.  Result: snoops
>> can neither crack the message nor even prove there is an encrypted message
>> to crack.
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>> Ain’t math cool?
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>> spike
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