On 10/17/19, 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
See the related... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem > 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.
