1993-01-27 - Computerized OTP (was 5th AMENDMENT & DECRYPTION)
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From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1993-01-27 03:36:42 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:36:42 PST
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From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:36:42 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Computerized OTP (was 5th AMENDMENT & DECRYPTION)
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>thug@phantom.com (Murdering Thug) writes,
>> (e.g.: no runs of 0's or 1's longer than
>> 5 bits).
>Cool! You've managed to weaken the one time pad enough for someone to
>crack it!
Taking 6-graph statistics, we seen that the entropy is 5.95, where it
should be 6.00. Or in other words, .992 bits of entropy per bit
symbol. That's not good.
Eric
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