The name “Byzantine Networking” has been applied to a set of problems where the solution is often to protect a distributed system in which only a numerical minority of nodes have failed. In that vein, how about designing “Byzantine Integrity Checking” for systems where we detect that only some of the pairwise point to point messages where corrupted by MITM?

In a “Brazil” (like the movie Brazil) reality, the best of net tech is often not where we want it to be. In particular, we consider also scenarios like this:

FBI has been watching Bob and Alice with suspicion since they were in NATO diapers at “the low, no real ad, base”. By the time they were preparing to initiate secure, long range communication, MITM was fully implemented on all of their respective jacks. The intent is to prevent all informative communication between them while sending nonsense in each direction to deny that either was never heard from again. What hope is there for that situation???

We consider factors of implementation/text that NATO/FBI dislike in the manner of a vampire disliking garlic. This might include:

testable and locating features of the local reality that each is seeing

testable and locating features of their contact coordinates

accusations of criminality against the actual criminal conspiracies of Deep State actors

discussions of “conspiracy theories” of historical events

rejections of policies against human variety, anatomy, freedom, independence, and sexuality.

Say for example that a UI features a menu with dynamic mixture of such choices/fill ins to create a hashable and recognizable template that can be used in addition to standard public/private keys & badges. Is it an extra risk? It’s a risk for someone who is trying to state in the good graces of the Deep State rackets. It’s not a risk for someone saying “I am not in the good graces of Deep State rackets, I do believe they practice criminal conspiracy against independents, I do believe that they are especially concerned with suppression of all true info about these conspiracies, and so I self-consciously include exposure to such information in my tech as “garlic” – precisely for the analogous purpose.

My experience very strongly indicates that rank & file employees/coders are not permitted to work after exposure to this garlic, so it does have benefits as part of a security protocol.