Now, I'm sending to the list, also.
On Thursday, October 17, 2019, 05:23:40 PM PDT, jim bell
<[email protected]> wrote:
Okay, I'm not advocating (or opposing) this concept. It just seemed to me
that since we are talking TOR-related features, we should pay attention to what
TOR currently claims to provide.
I think a few months ago, I mentioned the idea (which I assume somebody else
thought of first, probably years ago) of splitting a file into two (or more?)
pieces, stored in two (or more?) separate systems), which when XOR'd together,
provide the (forbidden, banned, 'reallybad!!!' 'highly-illegal') product file.
Neither file, alone, would be 'forbidden'.
The purpose of this is not 'secrecy' of course, but merely deniability.
Without the other file(s), the one file _I_ possess will be indistinguishable
from a random number. In fact, it could be a random number, which when XOR'd
with a forbidden text, becomes what amounts to another random number, and
somebody else's system will hold the other 'random number' . Think Vernam
cipher, otherwise known as a "one-time pad".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
Jim Bell
On Thursday, October 17, 2019, 12:36:16 PM PDT, Steven Schear
<[email protected]> wrote:
Filesharing is a privacy dead end. Only something like Mojo Nation / Mnet
publishing, where few or no participants need be aware of or hold file
contents, offer viable plausible deniability.
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 6:07 PM jim bell <[email protected]> wrote:
Neowin: New OnionShare 2.2 update makes it easy to share files and host sites
on the Tor network.
https://www.neowin.net/news/new-onionshare-22-update-makes-it-easy-to-share-files-and-host-sites-on-the-tor-network/
