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1996-11-23 - Re: IPG Algorith Broken!

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From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: nobody@cypherpunks.ca (John Anonymous MacDonald)
Message Hash: c16a9e02b02816b4671c53ccde4cb242751c92c0431c20a5d1499446d5ca64fb
Message ID: <199611232033.MAA01386@slack.lne.com>
Reply To: <199611231914.LAA10101@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-11-23 20:34:08 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:34:08 -0800 (PST)

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From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:34:08 -0800 (PST)
To: nobody@cypherpunks.ca (John Anonymous MacDonald)
Subject: Re: IPG Algorith Broken!
In-Reply-To: <199611231914.LAA10101@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <199611232033.MAA01386@slack.lne.com>
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John Anonymous MacDonald writes:
> 
> 
> At 8:09 AM 11/23/1996, Eric Murray wrote:
> >No, you can't.  It's impossible to prove an algorithim unbreakable.
> 
> No?  Please prove your assertion.

You can't prove a negative.  The best IPG could say is that
it can't be broken with current technology.
Next week someone might come up with a new way
to break ciphers that renders the IPG algorithim breakable.

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". :-)

 

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