I don't know much about hashing but is it possible five eyes just has a zettabyte-scale rainbow table covering scary words? They could use that to score encrypted messages and act on the scary ones.
Strong encryption has properties that make "known plaintext" attacks impossible. You should not be able to tell the message from pure randomness.
Breaking End-to-End-Encryption is not impossible but rather far fetched. If they read Snapchat, my bets would not be on broken crypto, but rather a lack thereof.
A more serious problem with the story is if they had any kind of advanced (or magical) brute force or mathematical path against some standard encryption scheme - they would not waste that major secret on some random 18yo joker.
(Although in the background, fuckups are always possible and they did send a fighter jet initially so there was some pressure to follow through. Still not enough to risk a major secret.)
I don’t know. Without even going in normal standard crypto, if you XOR a few words with a random initialisation vector, is it possible to flag those messages?
WhatsName|2 years ago
PhilipRoman|2 years ago
creer|2 years ago
(Although in the background, fuckups are always possible and they did send a fighter jet initially so there was some pressure to follow through. Still not enough to risk a major secret.)
speedgoose|2 years ago