Re: joy of export, h/ware
What type of attack was used in the famous test? Known plaintext? It gets a bit tougher in the real world doesn't it?
Not really.
Michael Motyka
Even if you don't know what you're looking for? Help me out with that one.
The question was "in the real world": in this case, as opposed to artificial
challenges, you often (or normally) do have access to known or chosen
plaintext. This can involve expected headers ("\nSubject: " somewhere near
the beginning of a message has a good chance of giving you a 64-bit block),
standard plaintext (". The " is a perennial favorite), or known C idioms
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Jim Gillogly