Global Information Warfare, 2nd Edition

Nonstate Actors ◾ 235

An encryption program scrambles information in a controlled manner through the

use of a cryptographic key. In the past, you sent a message encrypted with a particular

key to someone, and they had to be in possession of the same key to decrypt the mes-

sage. is is known as symmetrical cryptography. is, unfortunately, meant that you

had to communicate the key to the person to whom you were sending the message.

is was achievable for governments that have the infrastructure to distribute

cryptographic keys in a secure manner. However, this type of approach was just not

realistic for the general public to consider. In recent years, however, such technol-

ogy has increasingly been common in the public domain.

Propaganda

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