1996-03-11 - Re: Cryptanalysis

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From: Mike Tighe <tighe@spectrum.titan.com>
To: EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU (E. ALLEN SMITH)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-03-11 15:49:54 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:49:54 +0800

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From: Mike Tighe <tighe@spectrum.titan.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:49:54 +0800
To: EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU (E. ALLEN SMITH)
Subject: Re: Cryptanalysis
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>There are very good reasons to say little about "conventional
>cryptanalysis": it just doesn't matter much with modern ciphers, such as
>public key systems. Modern ciphers don't fall to conventional attacks based
>on word frequency, pattern analysis, etc.

I disagree with this, and think that in the next 10-25 years we will find
that most of the systems we are using today were as easily broken as the
systems of yester-year (Enigma, Japanese Codes ,etc).





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