why compression doesn't perfectly even out entropy

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Fri Apr 19 17:53:23 PDT 1996



Andrew Loewenstern writes:
> Perry writes:
> >  Furthermore, I suggest you look up the Venona intercept work
> >  and tell me again about how far an advesary will go with a
> >  tiny toehold.
> 
> The Venona breaks came because the NSA had a lot of encrypted traffic and  
> some pads were used more than once, which is hardly a tiny toehold.

In general, they were used twice. Thats a pretty tiny toehold.

.pm






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