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For one thing, your scenario isn't what the government wants.

For one thing, your scenario isn't what the government wants. The government wants to peek without the user knowing. This is the age of secret law. For another, good security includes deniability: You can't prove a blob of random-seeming data is or isn't encrypted data, and even granting knowledge that it is, there is no way to prove there isn't more than one key to more than one set of data.

Posted by Zigurd on Jul 20, 2015, 1:29 AM

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For one thing, your scenario isn't what the government wants.

ZigurdJul 20, 2015, 1:29 AM

For one thing, your scenario isn't what the government wants. The government wants to peek without the user knowing. This is the age of secret law. For another, good security includes deniability: You can't prove a blob of random-seeming data is or isn't encrypted data, and even granting knowledge that it is, there is no way to prove there isn't more than one key to more than one set of data.

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