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Originally Posted by Liingo

I feel sorry for Koji TT Although it's good to hear that Koji and Maren will hook up

Can't see any problems with her profile though.

Good to have you back

Thanks, it's good to be back

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Two pages in five hours, we're alive again.

Okay, I'm going to spill some of my 'expertise' in the area of signal here to assist people.

Spoiler for Encrypt and Decrypt:

First off, magical guidance and spelljacking.

If I look at how Nanoha controlls her Shooter spheres, I would have to say that her mechanism is a boosted telepathic style signal and direct remote control. If we can assume that Nanoha or Raising Heart is relaying a guidance telepathic component to her spheres.

If we treat telepathy as a non-electromagnic but still something like a wave signal, there are technical methods of preventing spelljacking.

First of all, transmission of the 'signal'. We're using a non-physical connection, but there are a variety of ways to go about it.
A wide, unfocused 'broadcast' would be detectable, interperateable, and jammable/hackable, where as a tight beam or even 'laser' transmission would be hard to intercept.

If we were to say that telepathic control is 'laser' transmission where as communication telepathy is broadcast... We could say that alone makes it hard to crack because you don't have time to brute hack your way into the sphere's guidance... and you don't have a signal to give you an idea of what to detect.

We could say that When Nanoha fires a shooter, she is Laser Telepathicly linked to the spheres, and she recieves a return laser transmission back from them. The biggest problem for others is knowing where to point that laser at any given moment to transmit the guidance data. But as it has been fired by RH, the device knows the exact position of the spheres at all times, and does all the deep computational work to maintain control lock. Nanoha's part of the control is to provide the actual guidance, which across a sixteen sphere feed, is quite a task, but one she's adept in.

After that, the next issue is signal format. Are we dealing with the magical equal to Analogue, or Digital? I would guess the latter, given that devices are extremely intelligent computer cores. If you're persuing the wrong format, you'll never get the signal right.

Then there's actual data security, cryptography. You don't even need quantum cryptography, just some decently high bit random number. The only two way communication is going to be directly between Raising Heart, and one of the spheres. Raising Heart could logically, generate a unique encryption for each and every single shooter sphere fired, and generate a new one every time Nanoha fires a shot. Given the short lifetime of such an attack, a disposable encryption is actually highly effective. Any hacker trying to hijack Nanoha's attack has to seperately decrypt sixteen different codes, codes that will not be the same the next time the attack is fired.

The number of possible equations from say, a 256 bit encryption would be expressed as
[2^256 x 16] S where S is the number of times Nanoha fires the attack....

So for each sphere, the key has 1.157920892373162e+77 possible solutions. Times Sixteen for all the spheres, and they change with every shot. Add in that from the moment nanoha fires it, you have maybe thirty seconds to access and intercept it tops before it strikes something... Which means you have to be able to go through 3.85973630791054e+75 values a second to brute force hack just one.

Decrypt THAT! BITCH!

Now, as for Guidance beyond line of sight... The 'magical' properties of a 'magic' wave probably just pass through inert objects, so technically, for the magic item and the user, they aren't out of the Line of Sight with each other.

Nice, very nice indeed
This proves that for a human being, hacking someone else's controlled shots is impossible.
...Now let's close this arguement before it gets out of hand, shall we?

Though, using the above explanation, it's easy to understand how the Numbers tapped into the Forwards' communications during the last battle. It was a broadcast...