Re: Cryptography

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sat Dec 28 1996 - 11:02:57 MST


On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Lyle Burkhead wrote:

> [...]
> I'm not saying I could "break" it. I'm just saying that, given two
> bit streams, A and B, I could tell whether they were generated by the
> same encryption algorithm, or different algorithms.

Good for you, I certainly couldn't. As somebody said, you probably could
so in case RC4, which seems to be a pathological case, showing a
fingerprint, but then, most algorithms don't.
 
ciao,
'gene

> Lyle



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