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by iraqmtpizza 781 days ago
I leak the length of my phone call and you leak:

1. the length of your phone call; and

2. what language you were speaking; oh and

3. half the words you said

(i.e. pwned)

https://web.archive.org/web/20080901185111/https://technolog...
1 comments
lisper 781 days ago
> you leak [a bunch of stuff]

How? Remember, the uncompressed text gets encrypted too.

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iraqmtpizza 781 days ago
It's in the article if you would bother to read it LOL. "simply measuring the size of packets without decoding them can identify whole words and phrases with a high rate of accuracy . . . [the researchers] can search for chosen phrases within the encrypted data"
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lisper 781 days ago
Ah.

That article is about voice calls. Totally different topic. Nothing to do with UTF-8.

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