On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:07:10PM -0400, John Young wrote:
Now that it appears the Internet is compromised what other means can rapidly deliver tiny fragments of an encrypted message, each unique for transmission, then reassembled upon receipt, kind of like packets but much smaller and less predictable, dare say random?
About your only choices are hams or (slightly higher budget) microsats with onboard flash and DTN (notice you can deliver packets during flyby). Hams also do launch microsats, so there's some overlap. I've been waiting for consumer phased arrays, just saw Locata VRay today -- perhaps not for much longer now. Prime your phased array with s00per-s3kr1t sat ephemerides, and you're good to go. Really hard to jam, too -- optical ones impossible to jam, even. For very high latency you could just use a global sneakernet. http://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ has some numbers. You could probably already run stock Usenet over uucp over that.
The legacy transceiver technologies prior to the Internet or developed parallel to it, burst via radio, microwave, EM emanations, laser, ELF, moon or planetary bounce, spread spectrum, ELF, hydro, olfactory, quanta, and the like.
Presumably if these are possible they will remain classified, kept in research labs for advanced study, or shelved for future use.
Quite a few are hinted at, redacted and partially described in NSA technical publications from 25-50 or so years ago. Many developed for military use and the best never shared with the public.
A skeptic might suppose the internet was invented and promoted as a diversion along with public-use digital cryptography. This ruse has led to immense growth in transmission-breakable ciphers as well as vulnerable transceivers. Packet techology could hardly be surpased for tappability as Snowden and cohorts disclose the tip of the iceberg. Ironically, the cohorts believe encryption protects their communications, conceals his location and cloaks the depositories.