Relation between number theory and cryptography

J. Michael Diehl mdiehl at polaris.unm.edu
Fri Jul 16 19:03:14 PDT 1993


According to Scott Collins:
> J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl at triton.unm.edu> writes:
> 
>   >if we were to add some noise [then] we have added [...] information
> Perhaps in 'Information Relativity'.  With respect to the original system
> (and by definition), noise is not information.  It is only data.

This is a good arguement, but I believe I specified "algorithmic" information to
be added to the message.  This, I believe, does convey information of some kind.


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