I have received, in chronological order and without censorship (moderation),
the following replies to this email:
"Name Wanted: Torturing passwords out of people with threats of (?repeated)
beatings is usually called rubberhose cryptanalysis.
What should torturing passphrases out of people with
truly random input to the algorithm in an amount equal to the
stuff being protected, or you cannot have unconditional security.
Not so. Perfect compression with encryption works too.
The OTP
is just the simplest realisation of this.
Greg.
Peter
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Peter Fairbrother
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
