• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    They can snatch a few people, but what if everyone starts doing that?

    Well designed steganography would not be easy to detect if the authorities don’t know what they are looking for. Do they just beat random people to find out if they are sending hidden messages?

    Okay you caught the person, so what?

    XCGHJ DFVBN TYGBJ

    With OTP, it could either be

    KILL THE EMPEROR

    or it could be

    Bring the Condom (something that’s embarassing and plausible to want to hide, but not overthrowing the government)

    or it could be any 15 character value, just think of any plausible thing you could possibly hide, to downplay what the real message is.

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Deniable encryption like that will be a lifesaver if things get bad enough. Though I’m thinking more the kind where the encrypted content on a computer disk is indistinguishable from free space, and you have multiple passwords that decrypt different parts of the filesystem. That way you can be interrogated and/or beaten, “give up” and unlock your computer (using the decoy password), and still hide any incriminating evidence since those files remain hidden with no way for adversaries to even detect that they exist.