Reply to post: Re: Plausible deniability

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Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: Plausible deniability

There are protocols for deniable encryption, where a ciphertext can be decrypted into one or more plausible alternative plaintexts using the appropriate keys.

Obviously, any message can be transformed by some function into any of a set of 2N messages, where N is the information entropy of the original message in bits; the point of deniable encryption is to provide alternatives using a plausible encryption function and a key you already know.

It's past time to roll deniable encryption out across personal devices.

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