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rubber-hose cryptanalysis

noun

Etymology

Referring to the use of a rubber hose as a weapon to beat somebody with.

Definitions

  1. The extraction of cryptographic secrets by coercion or torture.

    • We have shown that GNUnet is vulnerable to rubber-hose cryptanalysis, but we additionally have presented an efficient content filter for GNUnet. If content filtering is legally enforced, censoring GNUnet is possible at a very large scale.
    • Other types of cryptanalytic attacks include chosen cipher text, chosen key, rubber hose cryptanalysis, and purchase key. Algorithms differ by degrees of security; this depends on how hard they are to break.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rubber-hose cryptanalysis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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