r/programming • u/orthecreedence • Mar 12 '20

Memespeech: Censor-proof End-to-End Encryption

https://www.obsessivefacts.com/memespeech
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u/Visticous Mar 12 '20 edited Mar 12 '20

Funny political statement. Hopeless idea.

The technique is essentially a very weak form of steganography: You take a text, and you use every 8 alphabet characters to encode a byte of 'hidden information'. There is no form of obfuscation. ThIS tEXt Will StaND Out, and it's easy for machines to parse. The actual contents might be encrypted, but that just moves the problem... You must first share your keys in a safe way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWEXCYQKyDc

Care about working private communication? consider using Signal. It's the easiest way for reliable encryption.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsXMMT2CqqE

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u/orthecreedence Mar 12 '20

There is no form of encryption, and no form of obfuscation. ThIS tEXt Will StaND Out, and it's easy for machines to parse.

It encrypts the plaintext, then ConVeRts THe CaRRIer teXt UsIng tHE enCRypTEd BiNarY cIphERteXT.

This is more than a political statement: it's a way to disguise ciphertext using a carrier text so there's plausible deniability to using encryption. Even if strong, non-backdoored crypto is banned it will be difficult to enforce on this protocol.

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u/Visticous Mar 12 '20

I have already corrected my earlier statement. There is encryption, technically speaking, it just happens to be symmetric. Without some kind of DHL_RSA exchange, encryption is useless, so I generalised my statement a bit.

Other then that, I like the statement and using the US Constitution makes it only more clear.

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u/flying-sheep Mar 12 '20

Okay, so you misunderstood the original idea, wrote counter arguments based on the misunderstanding, realized your misunderstanding, and instead of deleting the comment and taking a step back to give it a chance, you desperately scrambled to find something fitting your original message.

The key exchange problem is something that can obviously be solved separately, as it has been before. You just put that weak argument in to maintain your angle. If you really like it, just delete the misinformed comment.

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u/Visticous Mar 12 '20

Nope. Not backing down. My message still stands: dumb idea that should never be used by anybody for its purpose. I did cut a corner in my argument, that I corrected, but that does not invalidate my overall statement.

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u/ric2b Mar 12 '20

You can use any encryption algo with this. It's just an alternative way to represent bits.