1993-04-20 - Re: Is 40 bits too little?

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From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
To: sasha@cs.umb.edu (Alexander Chislenko)
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UTC Datetime: 1993-04-20 04:35:40 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 21:35:40 PDT

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From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 21:35:40 PDT
To: sasha@cs.umb.edu (Alexander Chislenko)
Subject: Re: Is 40 bits too little?
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>    Yes, in just a trillion iterations you can test all possible keys.
> But if for testing *each* key you will have to figure out whether a text
> /signal you produced represents sensible speech... - it may be prohibitively
> expensive.
>   

Well, what if you're "close?"  Will it sound "kinda sensible?"  Perhapse it 
would sound like long distance.... ;^)

Just a thought.

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