On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:16:21PM -0700, Alex Pankratov wrote: > Assuming the password is an English word or a phrase, and the > secret is truly random, does it mean that the password needs > to be 3100+ characters in size in order to provide a "proper" > degree of protection to the value ?
If E(key) >= E(text), why not use a one time pad? > Or, rephrasing, what should the entropy of the password be > compared to the entropy of the value being protected (under > whatever keying/encryption scheme) ? Entropy != economic value -Jack --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
