Brute Force attack Question
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Wed Jul 24 14:45:56 PDT 1996
Igor Chudov writes:
> What is Alice and Bob decide to obscure their letters and add random
> NON-ASCII characters at random places?
Assuming I'm using a statistics based technique, that won't help.
Superencipherment might, but then again, thats sort of what 3DES is, right?
> If percentage of ASCII characters in all 256 byte space is 40%, Alice
> and Bob may agree to put in junk characters to make up exactly 60% of
> the message. This way messages will look like random character data.
Nope, it wouldn't. The statistics would be off.
Perry
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