17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
The Deviant wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Ben Laurie wrote:
And...
"Believe it or not, there is a perfect encryption system. It's called a one-time pad..."
Ahh... an OTP isn't unbreakable. Its just so encredibly breakable that you never know which break was the correct one ;)
Note that Schneier says "perfect", not "unbreakable". Cheers, Ben. -- Ben Laurie Phone: +44 (181) 994 6435 Email: ben@algroup.co.uk Freelance Consultant and Fax: +44 (181) 994 6472 Technical Director URL: http://www.algroup.co.uk/Apache-SSL A.L. Digital Ltd, Apache Group member (http://www.apache.org) London, England. Apache-SSL author