| ▲ | emptyroads 5 hours ago |
| Reminds me of nsafs, the National Security Agency Filesystem ("free" because the government pays for it) - https://github.com/freedomtools/nsafs |
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| ▲ | dekhn 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I once interviewed for a company and the interviewer was telling me how he (a vc) funded a project to generate large streams of random numbers; you would select an index at random, share that private key with somebody, and then the subsequent text could be used as a one-time-pad. NSA would be forced to buffer/save the entire stream, which could be generated at GB/sec, if they wanted to decrypt. It didn't seem very practical. |
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| ▲ | helterskelter 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wonder if we could mess with NSA-style surveillance by having a good chunk of the population streaming lots of random data over the internet. Essentially, Alice piping her /dev/random to Bob's /dev/null over netcat or something. Make a slick looking app that does it 24/7 in the background using excess bandwidth and tell people it sticks it to the NSA. Spy agencies would not only have to store it all in case it was something valuable, but at some point they may try to crack it because it's indistinguishable from encrypted data and waste resources on it. If enough people did it, total web surveillance could become impractical. | | | |
| ▲ | agnishom 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > generate large streams of random numbers; you would select an index at random, share that private key with somebody, and then the subsequent text could be used as a one-time-pad. This is what stream ciphers are |
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| ▲ | gowld 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This is just WOM with extra steps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(joke) |
