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A diplomatic bag, also known as a diplomatic pouch, is an envelope, parcel, shipping container or any other kind of receptacle having diplomatic immunity from search or seizure. It need not be an actual bag. Some countries with corrupt governments have alleged to use diplomatic immunity to smuggle drugs, which was mentioned by English jornalist Tony Thompson in his book .

Cryptography

In discussions of cryptography, the diplomatic bag is conventionally used as an example of the ultimate secure channel used to exchange keys, codebooks and other necessarily secret materials. Like Alice and Bob, it is an example of a metasyntactic variable when used this way.

In actual practice, diplomatic bags are indeed used for exactly this purpose. An illustration is the strenuous protest made by German diplomats in Poland in the late '20s when a cypher machine being shipped to the German Warsaw Embassy — a commercial version of the famous Enigma machine — was mistakenly not marked as protected baggage and was opened, under protest, by Polish Customs. It was released to them, supposedly without much apology (and with still more protest), on the following Monday, but had been thoroughly inspected by Polish cryptography personnel over the weekend.

In Popular Culture

In the film The Peacemaker, A Diplomat who also was a terrorist smuggled a nuclear bomb into the United States using a Diplomatic Bag. The bag was never searched in customs and aircraft luggage screening due to diplomatic immunity.

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Diplomatic immunity is a form of legal immunity and a policy held between governments, which ensures that diplomats are given safe passage and are considered not susceptible to lawsuit or prosecution under the host country's laws (although they can be expelled).
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Tony Thompson (November 15, 1954 – November 12, 2003) was a session drummer of Trinidadian and Antiguan descent (His father being from Antigua and his mother from Trinidad) with a long list of studio credits. He is best known for his work with Chic.
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Cryptography (or cryptology; derived from Greek κρυπτός kryptós "hidden," and the verb γράφω gráfo "write" or λεγειν legein
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In cryptography, a secure channel is a way of transferring data that is resistant to interception or tampering.

Secure channels in the real world

There are no perfectly secure channels in the real world.
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key is a piece of information (a parameter) that controls the operation of a cryptographic algorithm. In encryption, a key specifies the particular transformation of plaintext into ciphertext, or vice versa during decryption.
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codebook is a document used for implementing a code. A codebook contains a lookup table for coding and decoding; each word or phrase has one or more strings which replace it. To decipher messages written in code, corresponding copies of the codebook must be available at either end.
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The names Alice and Bob are commonly used placeholders for archetypal characters in fields such as cryptography and physics. The names are used for convenience, since explanations such as "Person A wants to send a message to person B
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"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
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Mazurek Dąbrowskiego   (Polish)
Dąbrowski's Mazurek
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Motto: Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms)
Semper invicta (Always invincible)
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Enigma cipher machine
  • Enigma machine
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Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting customs duties and for controlling the flow of animals and goods (including personal effects and hazardous items) in and out of a country.
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The Peacemaker is a 1997 thriller and action movie starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. It is notable as being the very first film released by DreamWorks.
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Diplomatic immunity is a form of legal immunity and a policy held between governments, which ensures that diplomats are given safe passage and are considered not susceptible to lawsuit or prosecution under the host country's laws (although they can be expelled).
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In cryptography, a secure channel is a way of transferring data that is resistant to interception or tampering.

Secure channels in the real world

There are no perfectly secure channels in the real world.
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The Straight Dope is a popular question-and-answer newspaper column published in the Chicago Reader (an alternative weekly), syndicated in thirty newspapers in the United States and Canada, and available online.
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