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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