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Comment by withinboredom

That’s because there isn’t a point. In order for encryption to work, you need to exchange keys at some point. Doing that half a world away is rather pointless. Doing it over the air, how do I know Alice won’t intercept and broadcast her keys louder than me? Or just interfere and prevent me from sending keys?

As we all learned in WWII, a code is better than encryption when you need complex PKI to achieve encryption. It’s more flexible, and can even convey nuances not intended. Ah, sorry I mean a language, not a code. But still, code words and phrases are still a thing.

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