Reply to post: Re: Evil one time pad

Line by line, how the US anti-encryption bill will kill our privacy, security

Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Evil one time pad

Ah, I think I see your disconnect here.

In reality, the encrypted message does not 'contain' the decoy message as such. You are creating a fake translation matrix that you apply to your encrypted message to make it look like the decoy message when it's processed.

Does that help?

Actually, thinking about it, couldn't this process be used to fake evidence if someone refuses to reveal their passwords? It might be limited to creating incriminating evidence rather then magically conjuring up actual useful data (which is still hidden by the encryption) - but who is going to argue that the prosecution has 'incorrectly' decrypted the file? The only way to prove that their information was fake would be to produce the *real* key, and hence reveal the real data.

Oh dear.

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