Is 40 bits too little?

Alexander Chislenko sasha at cs.umb.edu
Mon Apr 19 21:01:14 PDT 1993


   Yes, in just a trillion iterations you can test all possible keys.
But if for testing *each* key you will have to figure out whether a text
/signal you produced represents sensible speech... - it may be prohibitively
expensive.
  
		Alex  Chislenko.






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