.@savagejen There's one universal feature of space opera: cryptography is mysteriously a lost technology. B5 was even worse.
@puellavulnerata @matthew_d_green @savagejen A Fire Upon the Deep used a sneakernet of spaceships with fragments of secret shared OTP pads
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@bascule@matthew_d_green@savagejen Crap, I'd forgotten that detail. Need to re-read it... -
@puellavulnerata@matthew_d_green@savagejen yeah, it was basically the endgame for cryptography: OTP was the only thing that worked -
@bascule@puellavulnerata@savagejen Greg Egan used quantum key distribution. Same deal.
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@bascule@matthew_d_green@savagejen ...but then I also have to read _A Deepness in the Sky_, and the Emergents can outcreep event the#NSAThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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