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   Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins   
   Re: Cops hate encryption but the NSA lov   
   04 Jun 23 22:08:43   
   
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   REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 091d60af   
   Hi August,   
      
   On 2023-06-04 11:08:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    WvV>> Probably everything is collected. And btw binkd doesn't use a very   
    WvV>> good encryption algorithm. So if they wanted/needed to break it,   
    WvV>> they probably could.   
      
    AA> I thought binkd's encryption only extended to the   
    AA> authentication part.  If the whole transfer, ie. the PKTs are   
    AA> encrypted, that's interesting.   
      
   It can be, but not every node supports it...   
      
    AA> I recall a movement that suggested that people simply FLOOD the   
    AA> channels with messages that bore "suspect" text in the Subject   
    AA> lines: super secret, terrorism, murder.. etc.  The idea being   
    AA> that then they will have too much data to analyse.   
      
   I don't think that would work now. Data analyses and cpu power has come a long   
   way...   
      
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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