Re: Deducing key from encrypted original data

2001-12-11 Thread Petro
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:33:41AM +, Andrew Bolt wrote: ...unless you are from Hollywood - in which case a good encryption scheme is one that can be cracked by having lots of digits flash up on the screen, and gradually have individual digits lock into the correct key. Some wierd

Re: Deducing key from encrypted original data

2001-12-11 Thread Petro
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:33:41AM +, Andrew Bolt wrote: ...unless you are from Hollywood - in which case a good encryption scheme is one that can be cracked by having lots of digits flash up on the screen, and gradually have individual digits lock into the correct key. Some wierd

Deducing key from encrypted original data

2001-12-10 Thread Dries Kimpe
Hi, this is something I've been wondering for some time now: Is it possible (or at least much easier) to extract the encryption key if you both have the encrypted and original data? Dries PS. I know it isn't debian-related, but it's a good question anyway... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Deducing key from encrypted original data

2001-12-10 Thread Dries Kimpe
Hi, this is something I've been wondering for some time now: Is it possible (or at least much easier) to extract the encryption key if you both have the encrypted and original data? Dries PS. I know it isn't debian-related, but it's a good question anyway...

Re: Deducing key from encrypted original data

2001-12-10 Thread Andrew Bolt
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:00:40AM +0100, Dries Kimpe wrote: Hi, this is something I've been wondering for some time now: Is it possible (or at least much easier) to extract the encryption key if you both have the encrypted and original data? Dries PS. I know it isn't