Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jonathrg 297 days ago
The term to google for more information about this would be Known plaintext attack.
1 comments

Oh that makes sense. I assumed wrong that it was going to be about prisoners sending secret messages in their letters home, and the guards wanting to scramble those out.
And the term for _that_ is steganography
I clicked thinking it was about avoiding watermarks when exfiltrating data. I enjoyed the cryptography lesson I got instead.