On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:11:43PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/26/2009 05:34 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> >I have a naive question. > > > >While your brute force decryption is running, how do you determine > >you have found the "one key" and decide it's time to stop? > > > >Among trillions of trillions, when do you know you've hit the > >jackpot? > > > >The answer is probably obvious but I just don't see it. > > When you can decrypt the document with it? You don't have access to the original unencrypted document to compare your output/solutions with, obviously you wouldn't need to decrypt it in the first place.. how do you know when you have successfully decrypted? Thanks, CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org