On Wednesday 04 May 2016 18:34, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >> Ceterum censeo, the only suggested use for .swapcase I've ever heard of >> is encryption. > > Yep, all the smart terrorists these days are using a > combination of swapcase and rot13. Totally bamboozles > the FBI. >
Heh, the Australian government is getting their panties in a twist over the whole encryption thing, because Apple versus FBI proves that encryption is evil or something. Which lead to this exchange in the IRC channel we use at work: (handles have been removed to anonymize the discussion) XXXX: newsflash, most criminals are too stupid to use encryption XXXX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahedeen_Secrets XXXX: It's hilarious, they turn off all the "western" ciphers YYYY: the great thing about Mujahedeen Secrets (apart fromt he crypto apparently being poor) is the cyphertext is trivially detectable YYYY: like "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----" but it's "-----DEATH TO INFIDELS-----" or something YYYY: so XKeyscore can just go "this person is using Mujahedeen Secrets" in their regular traffic matching ZZZZ: Wait, Mujahedeen Secrets was released anonymously, it has easily broken encryption and is trivially detectable? Can you say "schmuck bait"? I think I know who the authors were... -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
