Sublime

La résistance à la censure pourrait bien être le facteur clé qui fera décoller l’utilisation de ces services. Dans les pays exerçant un contrôle fort sur les médias et Internet, ils offriraient des espaces de liberté précieux. Un État peut difficilement agir sur de tels systèmes, car il n’y a pas de serveur à fermer ni à espionner.

For the civilized world, anonymity is like a rare earth metal. In larger doses these heavy metals are some of the most toxic substances known to a life. They kill. Yet these elements are also a necessary ingredient in keeping a cell alive. But the amount needed for health is a mere hard-to-measure trace. Anonymity is the same. As a trace element in

fact, it can be mathematically proved that it is impossible for a cryptanalyst to crack a message encrypted with a onetime pad cipher. In other words, the onetime pad cipher is not merely believed to be unbreakable, just as the Vigenère cipher was in the nineteenth century, it really is absolutely secure. The onetime pad offers a guarantee of secre

Alice and Bob have agreed on a onetime pad, and the laws of quantum physics actually forbid Eve from successfully intercepting it.