On Monday, October 21, 2019, 04:10:23 AM PDT, grarpamp
   <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
   On 10/17/19, jim bell <[1]jdb10987@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".  [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
   >See the related...
   >[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem
   Yup.  Sounds like it,    Remember, 'deniability', not 'secrecy'.
                 Jim Bell

References

   1. mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com
   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
   3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem