
17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote:
Perfect is a better term. Strictly speaking it is because there is no finite unicity distance (the amount of ciphertext with which the cipher can theoretically be broken). So, stricly speaking, for a given message C and a prospective pad, P, out of a set of N pads which may or may not be correct:
P(P|C) = N^-1
What does it mean? - Igor.