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Matthew J Ghio
mg5n+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Sun Feb 27 13:30:56 PST 1994
Karl Barrus wrote:
> Well, you do have to be careful: a large number of keys doesn't
> mean a cipher is hard to break, there may be a faster method
> than brute force. For instance, those cryptograms some papers
> print in the puzzle section are a simple substition cipher, with
> 26! keys... yet they are also pretty much trivially breakable
> with enough input.
Quite true! However, as I pointed out, I tried very hard to eliminate
all such possibilities that would allow simplifying the key search
process. It's also very easy to modify the program to support a larger
key and additional encryption rounds.
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