From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 18:42:02 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: IPG Algorith Broken!
Message-ID: <199611240241.SAA29110@netcom6.netcom.com>
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At  4:21 PM 11/23/96 -0800, John Anonymous MacDonald wrote:
>At 12:33 PM 11/23/1996, Eric Murray wrote:
>>You point could have been that the same problem exists
>>for proofs- that next week someone could come up
>>with a way to prove, for all time, that an algorithim
>>really IS unbreakable.  So, to cover that posibility
>>I should have said "it's currently impossible to
>>prove an algorithim unbreakable". :-)
>
>Or, more accurately, nobody credible has seen such a proof.  But, a
>clever person might invent one.

I thought Shannon proved one-time-pads to be unbreakable using information
theory.


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