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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
In the end the Fat Lady has sung, and digital communication is compromised for the foreseeable future.

One counter is to send text messages that have been encrypted using one-time pads. They can find out with whom you're communicating, but they can't break the message without figuring out the one-time pads, which is why you never re-use them.

The big problem with one-time pads is distributing them. This problem still exists even with text messages.

24 posted on 03/08/2017 11:06:47 AM PST by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: JoeFromSidney

Real old school stuff. Reasonable sized one time pads can be beaten by brute force. I guess you would need a one time pad on a roll of TP stretching to the moon.


25 posted on 03/08/2017 11:26:40 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: JoeFromSidney
The big problem with one-time pads is distributing them. This problem still exists even with text messages.

There is no problem. You use a publicly available book. . . one that is the same regardless of where you look at it. There is just an agreed on schedule of when a specific book is the "one-time pad" being used. This can be as granular as down to a day, an hour, or even a specific time of day, just as long as sender and receiver (or their sending/receiving devices) know that schedule. Problem solved.

30 posted on 03/08/2017 5:03:56 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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