I’ve been moving files around at work and encrypting the ones that make sense to do so.
From Cryptonomicon, I understand that “radio games” roughly translates to “funkspiel” in German (partly because the radio on German submarines used to be called the “funkmaat”). I’ve been creating sized-just-right crypted logical drives/files with TrueCrypt, putting various big-ass compressed archive files in them and then mothballing them forever on reliable network-based storage in case my laptop goes tits up (note to my gender-balance obsessed friends - I say this in full awareness that I possess moobs, so I figure “tits up” is a gender neutral phrase).
What makes it even sillier is that the reliable storage in question is auto-compressed and TrueCrypt drives do not work in NTFS compressed files land (i.e. if the *.tc file itself is compressed), so when I copy the volumes over to the network storage, they automatically do not work while they’re sitting there but are easily reactivated by copying them back to or setting them back to being non-compressed. But since I plan to revive by copying them over first to non-compressed storage that’s all good too.
Anyway, there must be a funkspiel equivalent for cryptography.
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