If it were the straight Vernam cipher then this would yield the key. But that gets you nothing since that key is never reused.
Sent from my phone On Sep 7, 2013, at 4:13 AM, Jon Callas <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Sep 7, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Dave Horsfall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Got a question that's been bothering me for a whlie, but it's likely >> purely academic. >> >> Take the plaintext and the ciphertext, and XOR them together. Does the >> result reveal anything about the key or the painttext? > > It better not. That would be a break of amazing simplicity that transcends > broken. > > Jon > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Universal 3.2.0 (Build 1672) > Charset: us-ascii > > wj8DBQFSKuANsTedWZOD3gYRAhHiAJsGJ43vKlGRY1p9moFvyY0GZV8ePgCfa4R0 > oCWJ6kNVs+qlnwcpfhU/bNA= > =Ub19 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > The cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
