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It would be awesome if there's a message that when decoded incorrectly said "Drink your Ovaltine", but when decoded correctly was a different message


Remind me of “Deniable Encryption”[1], where a single encrypted input decrypts to multiple plausible plain texts (including the real one, obviously) so that, if, for example, you were caught and asked to decrypt it, you can decrypt to the non-incriminating version.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption




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