Yes, I think that's a fair representation of my position, and let me say a few words in defense of it.
I think you've done well at that, and it makes sense. As a result... I'm just not sure I know at present how one might apply these principles to eliminate any forms of encryption and make anything in nature useful for improving prediction!
One of my goals in learning crypto is to know if and when this actually would improve security, and as best as I can tell, it doesn't -- as ciphergoth suggested to me, it makes your cryptosystem weaker where it's already the weakest and stronger where it's already strong enough. And it's the weakest link that matters.
Could you explain if this was sort of an "aside continuation" re. the leetspeak comment or about encryption in general? In other words, are you saying that it doesn't help to add an "underlying" layer of additional encryption, or that encryption, in general, doesn't doe anyone much good?
Could you explain if this was sort of an "aside continuation" re. the leetspeak comment or about encryption in general? In other words, are you saying that it doesn't help to add an "underlying" layer of additional encryption, or that encryption, in general, doesn't doe anyone much good?
First, just to make clear, those were separate events, far removed in space and time. Ciphergoth's remark was not directed at my leetspeak idea, but the principle applies just the same.
Encryption does accomplish the goal of raising the cost of access...
Short version: Why can't cryptanalysis methods be carried over to science, which looks like a trivial problem by comparison, since nature doesn't intelligently remove patterns from our observations? Or are these methods already carried over?
Long version: Okay, I was going to spell this all out with a lot of text, but it started ballooning, so I'm just going to put it in chart form.
Here is what I see as the mapping from cryptography to science (or epistemology in general). I want to know what goes in the "???" spot, and why it hasn't been used for any natural phenomenon less complex than the most complex broken cipher. (Sorry, couldn't figure out how to center it.)
EDIT: Removed "(cipher known)" requirement on 2nd- and 3rd-to-last rows because the scientific analog can be searching for either natural laws or constants.