Re: Cryptanalysis

From: IN%"tcmay@got.net" 9-MAR-1996 12:05:04.70
There are very good reasons to say little about "conventional cryptanalysis": it just doesn't matter much with modern ciphers, such as public key systems. Modern ciphers don't fall to conventional attacks based on word frequency, pattern analysis, etc.
I realize that this may also be considered an out of date subject, but what's a good reference for codes as opposed to cyphers (other than the one reference in the Cyphernomicon which includes "codes" in its title)? Thanks, -Allen

There are very good reasons to say little about "conventional cryptanalysis": it just doesn't matter much with modern ciphers, such as public key systems. Modern ciphers don't fall to conventional attacks based on word frequency, pattern analysis, etc.
I disagree with this, and think that in the next 10-25 years we will find that most of the systems we are using today were as easily broken as the systems of yester-year (Enigma, Japanese Codes ,etc).
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E. ALLEN SMITH
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