Posts by BenWilson
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I'm curious about the real security of the hidden volume idea. It has always struck me that it's not really that safe from compulsion. If you can be compelled to give the first layer key, then existence of second layer files can be found, and you can be compelled to give the keys for those too.
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OnPoint: The Big Guns: Truecrypt and Tails, in reply to Paul Campbell,
BTW the music industry already runs a world wide OTP distribution system – let’s both buy the same CD and use the LSBs of the waveforms
That's not an OTP. The OT being the part by which you can tell. When you use a segment of the OTP's key, you delete it. In the old days the key pieces were on small notepads so that the pages could be burned as they were used, which is where the name comes from. If there's other copies out there, it's a dreadfully insecure system.
But yes, with an actual OTP you can hide secrets from the future. The burned pages can not be reconstituted, the 7 times overwritten data bits can't be dredged up, and the key was random. The intercepted transmission is utterly useless without the key, and the key is gone. It could only be recreated from the original message, but there is no purpose in doing so if you have that message already. Perhaps you might do that to find out what the key was so that you could prove whom the message was destined for if you then caught them with the key. But that involves a non-encryption compromise, something that every system is vulnerable to. If the keys are gone, the cyphertext is useless.
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Hard News: The Crazy Gang Nation, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Labour won the election by presenting the electorate with a manifesto, and then doing something completely different when they took office.
Well, they did also win another election after that.
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Russell Brown,
Oh, good lord. That’s extremely disingenuous. Priestley offered “the foolishness of your two victims, venturing out alone at night in a park in a strange city, dressed as they were” as a potential basis for the acquittal.
Indeed. It's not uncommon to have one's car stolen from remote locations, but that doesn't mean that stealing a car is magically not a crime just because the owner dared to park their car somewhere perfectly legal. Also, dairies get robbed all the time. Is someone who gets assaulted in their dairy to blame for provoking the robber by having cash in their till? Is the robber to get off scot free because the provocation is so obvious to any red-blooded male?
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I’m being dead serious, Ben
I know. I hope it was clear I was mocking Jones. His column is ridiculous, every time. It's hard to find anyone more self-entitled in print in NZ.
The only time I have truly wanted to strangle someone
Presumably you used your words instead, though, unlike Jones?
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yeah, the veiled threats are pretty creepy. I'm getting a strong hint of a one of the kiwiblog trolls in there.
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
what ‘sensible precautions’ female NZH staff are expected to take to avoid being assaulted out and about
Definitely don't disturb the man when he's fishing.
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Hard News: Not so insane, in reply to "chris",
if that read like a rant Ben, it certainly wasn’t directed at you or anyone here.
I didn't read it like that, don't worry. As for horse tranquilizer, the one time I tried Kronik, I formed a belief that something like that might be in it. I had a sense of paralysis which affected my respiration, and had laboured breathing for the next hour or so. It was really unpleasant. I had quite a strong fear that I might have a heart attack or asphyxiate. This effect was limited to that brand though, not that I sampled very widely.
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Danielle,
True, the real question is "how huge?"
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It's worth remembering that Bob Jones did this once and got away with it without serving any prison time at all.
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