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What Encryption Do People In The Know Use?

Posted by Hemos on from the gnupg dept.

A reader writes "What do cypherpunks in the know recommend for the paranoid types. I'm wondering because of the rising amount of protests. I look and most of these people seem clueless when using the net. Paranoia runs rampant (try taping a protest), yet they use stuff like real, which has been known to violate privacy. So my question is, what would slashdot readers recommend for people who have privacy they actually wish to protect? Are there any good laymen level papers on this?"

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  1. Best encryption today by agdv · · Score: 3, Funny

    ROT-13. As seen on Slashdot!
    For high privacy, national security, etc, use ROT-14...that ought to confuse the (few) experts that are able to crack ROT-13.
    Pig Latin may also work for text-only data.

    Oh? What? The people who want to crack it are not under the age of 5? My bad.

  2. Re:Depends a lot on your needs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What about 4DES? Or 5? nDES!!!