On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Charly Avital wrote: > Some excerpts from: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fortress>. I > believe the following list of Mr. Brown's errors (or delusions) is not > exclusive, to say the least. … > * Characters who are supposedly experts in cryptography seem to > think there is no such thing as an unbreakable encryption scheme. See > one-time pad."
Perfect secrecy doesn’t really mean unbreakable in practice. Sure, a one‐time pad itself is considered “unbreakable”, but you still need to solve key exchange and hope your pseudo‐random numbers are cryptographically secure. Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall
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