geeman@best.com wrote:
What about the heuristics of partitioning the keyspace?
Seems to me that a _subset_ of all possible keys is much more likely to appear than a random selection from an equidistributed population 0..2^56.
(P)RNG's just aren't that likely to produce a key of 010101010..... nor 001100110011...
Why? They seem just as likely as any other sequence. etc etc and I have been thinking about how one might formalize
and exploit this randomness property to increase the probability of finding the key sooner.
Again, which randomness property? Gary -- "Of course the US Constitution isn't perfect; but it's a lot better than what we have now." -- Unknown. pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06