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Indeed. And famously, using black boxes as a background on individual words in a non-monospaced font is also susceptible to a dictionary attack on an image of the widths of the black boxes.


And even taking sharpie and drawing a black box doesn't mean the words can be seen at a certain angle or by removing the sharpie ink but not the printed ink.

Really, if you need to censor something create a duplicate without the originals. Preferably literally without the originals as the size of the black box is also an information leak.


No need for the monospaced requirement - it would reduce the search space, but it's solvable even before this reduction.


The additional leakage provided by non-monospace is rather large. With monospace all you know is the character count.




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