waxwing on Nostr: Fwiw I'm pessimistic there's a scenario where this could work tbh. There wouldn't be ...
Fwiw I'm pessimistic there's a scenario where this could work tbh.
There wouldn't be enough entropy in the space of messages that aren't suspicious.
Even a guy posting price quotes to 7 s.f. wouldn't have space for more than a few bits of entropy. As to how much entropy is in "normal human messages that could conceivably make sense in context", that's super hard to measure but I think it must be low.
That's why plaintext random channels are so special. Like initialization vectors in ciphers like AES.
There wouldn't be enough entropy in the space of messages that aren't suspicious.
Even a guy posting price quotes to 7 s.f. wouldn't have space for more than a few bits of entropy. As to how much entropy is in "normal human messages that could conceivably make sense in context", that's super hard to measure but I think it must be low.
That's why plaintext random channels are so special. Like initialization vectors in ciphers like AES.