Dave Korn wrote:
On 07 September 2007 21:28, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
Grow up. *If* the drive vendor keeps the mechanism secret, you have
cause for complaint. But can you name a drive vendor who's done
anything like that in years?
All DVD drive manufacturers. That's why nobody could
If a proof is a record of a mental journey in which one person has
discovered an important truth, and then made a record of that journey
adequate so that a second person can walk the same path and see the same
truth, then cryptography could do with more and better proofs.
If, on the other
True, the contestants are given extra information, though. They know
ahead of time that the words make up the name of a place, or a common
saying, for example. That helps decrease the entropy considerably. They
also know the exact number of characters in the final answer and are able
to probe
