Reply to post: Re: Missing the first basic step

'There has never been a right to absolute privacy' – US Deputy AG slams 'warrant-proof' crypto

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Re: Missing the first basic step

You could encrypt the phone book, but then it’s entropy would show it was not random

If you use ROT13 as your cypher, it will. For any real encryption - no, it won't. Which is a rather large fraction of the whole point.

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