Prison Blues

Name: Prison Blues
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ISBN: 9783769378108

Covert Encrypted Messaging over GIT with Spot-On Encryption Suite

Uni Nurf

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English

Bod - Books on Demand
30 December 2025

Coding theory & cryptology; Data encryption

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PRISON BLUES turns one of the world's most ordinary developer tools into something unexpected: a covert, end-to-end encrypted message channel that looks like routine code collaboration. Inside the Spot-On encryption suite, Prison Blues treats a Git repository as an asynchronous message bus. Messages become encrypted files. ""Sending"" becomes committing and pushing. ""Receiving"" becomes pulling and decrypting. The result is a resilient, store-and-forward communication method designed for environments where conventional messengers are blocked, monitored, or simply too risky - yet Git traffic still passes as normal. This manuscript is an accessible deep dive into how the idea works, why it's useful, and where its edges are. It doesn't romanticize ""stealth""; it confronts the real operational realities of Git-based transport - metadata leakage, timing signals, server availability, and the practical constraints of platforms and tooling. If you care about censorship resistance, secure collaboration, and threat modeling beyond the ciphertext, Prison Blues offers a blueprint for thinking clearly about all three. You'll explore: Git-as-transport architecture (commit / push / pull as messaging primitives) Defense-in-depth encryption (Spot-On plus optional GPG workflows) Security trade-offs: auditability vs. exposure, persistence vs. deniability Real-world use cases: ""digital dead drops,"" private bulletin boards, and restrictive networks ""When all else is watched, try Git.""

By: Uni Nurf
Imprint: Bod - Books on Demand
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 82g
ISBN: 9783769378108
ISBN 10: 3769378105
Pages: 76
Publication Date: 30 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active