Neowin: New OnionShare 2.2 update makes it easy to share files and host sites on the Tor network

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On 10/17/19, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   Okay, I'm not advocating (or opposing) this concept.  It just seemed to me
> that since we are talking TOR-related features, we should pay attention to
> what TOR currently claims to provide.
> I think a few months ago, I mentioned the idea (which I assume somebody else
> thought of first, probably years ago) of splitting a file into two (or
> more?) pieces, stored in two (or more?) separate systems), which when XOR'd
> together, provide the (forbidden, banned, 'reallybad!!!' 'highly-illegal')
> product file.   Neither file, alone, would be 'forbidden'.
> The purpose of this is not 'secrecy' of course, but merely deniability.
> Without the other file(s), the one file _I_ possess will be
> indistinguishable from a random number.   In fact, it could be a random
> number, which when XOR'd with a forbidden text, becomes what amounts to
> another random number, and somebody else's system will hold the other
> 'random number'  .   Think Vernam cipher, otherwise known as a "one-time
> pad".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem



>     On Thursday, October 17, 2019, 12:36:16 PM PDT, Steven Schear
> <schear.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Filesharing is a privacy dead end. Only something like Mojo Nation / Mnet
> publishing, where few or no participants need be aware of or hold file
> contents, offer viable plausible deniability.