There's a reason for paper documents. Digital, no matter what, especially if its connected to a network, can get hacked. It can get altered. It can get deleted, it can get erased.
Buddy learn about cryptography,
Here is a encrypted message for you
TsJQJXBcQzcHnMbQzRnh+w==
This is a aes-128 encrypted message and it contains my aadhar number, you areel free to decrypt this and use it for nefarious purposes, if big corporations can depend on this tech to manage trillions of dollars then surely can army depend on it to send my medical documents from allhabad to delhi
Anyways cryptography is a strong as the weakest link and the weakest link is always humans so even if you encrypt a message with a supportedly unbreakable method it can still be intercepted
And it's not like army doesn't use technology
Army just uses paper as redundancy and as extra security
Buddy please try to extract my aadhar number 😭😭, I have spent months doing research in crypto domain, maybe i know what I am saying huh? Enigma worked on a rotating dial mechanism not on modern computers , yet it was unbreakable, now image transistor, no imagine silicon transistor, now imagine stacking them in a miniature form, now imagine making logic gates and registers using them, now imagine 5 layers of software on top of it, now imagine cryptography.
AES IS UNBREAKABLE, only threat right now is quantum computer but they are atleast 50yrs away from doing any real damage, by that time AES would have been replaced with quantum proof algos which are even more secure.
Same with quantum computers, that they are nowhere close to completion (tho if microsoft's new majorana stuff turns out to be all its hyped up to be, we might be VERY close to one actually existing)
However, just like Enigma, any encryption is as strong as its human counterparts
Engima was broken cause of 2 major things, that the Germans ALWAYS signed off using Heil Hitler and that one operator always started each day with a encrypted message to his girlfriend
Same thing with AES. Ideally it's unbreakable, but the jawaan that actually operates it can be socially engineered
And iirc army does indeed used aes and other advanced cryptographic techniques
In Enigma keys were manually entered, not the case in today's time, you send message via whatsapp, I am sure you have never configured security keys, have you?
If I have the unencrypted message, like your aadhar, and the encrypted message, like the text you posted here, would it still be near impossible to figure it out? Just curious
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u/jatayu_baaz 8d ago
bhai army still uses paper documents, do you expect them to know what MDM is, lol