On Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 7:24:22 AM PDT, \0xDynamite wrote: >>>Well if they don't know the key length, then using somewhere between >>> 1/3 and 2/3 should make it unbreakable. > >> No, using the full length is necessary. Using a key length less than the >> full length of the message is very dangerous. >Hmm, as far as I'm aware, you can't do cryptanalysis on 2 characters. >Marxos A factoid which is irrelevant in this context. If you only wanted to encrypt two characters, once, you could use ROT-13 and nobody would be the wiser. Jim Bell