From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 13:23:09 MDT
--- gts <gts@optexinc.com> wrote:
> Consider, as a simple example, the generation of a password (e.g.,
> the
> password you would need for use with conventional encryption with the
> IDEA algorithm [my favorite] such as that found in PGP). To generate
> a password that is truly uncrackable in principle (aside from sheer
> brute
> force attacks) would require that you have access to numbers that are
> at once unpredictable and undetermined.
I know of no source that claims that numbers must be undetermined. It
can be said that the fact that you have them demonstrates that they
are, in fact, determined. Furthermore, while what you say may be
theoretically true that an uncrackable code may require truley
unpredictable and undetermined ciphertext, such ciphertext will also be
uncrackable by the intended recipient, as well.
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