Re: migration paradigm (was: Is PGP broken?)

[Peter Fairbrother]

on 6/12/00 9:43 pm, Rick Smith at Secure Computing at
[snip]
>> "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
>> Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
> 
> So the 'new dictonary' for pass phrase attacks contains all the chestnuts
> from all the school lit books in the country. I expect there's a lot of
> overlap in their choices. As Arnold pointed out, maybe 1.33 bits is an
> overestimation.

In WW2 SOE and OSS used original poems which were often pornographic. See
"Between Silk and Cyanide" by Leo Marks for a harrowing account.

Peter