In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas writes: >[newbie here] > >I was wondering how can one tell if some data was successfully >decrypted. Isn't there an assumption going on about what the cleartext >data should be? Text? Image? ZIP file? Ziped jpeg? Another cyphertext? >rot-13?
There are a lot of ways to tell, but you generally have to have some idea what you're looking for. For two examples of how to do it, see http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/probtxt.ps (or .pdf) and http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/recog.ps (or .pdf) --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
