| From: | Sebastian Wiers <seb@***.RIPCO.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Easy Unbreakable Encryption! |
| Date: | Wed, 21 Jun 1995 15:07:48 -0500 |
> Bob> the standard LinguaSoft programming framework, set in a random
> Bob> element and produce specific language chips when you need them.
>
> This is a lot easier to break than you seem to think. Give me a large
> enough sample of text to work from and I can break this cypher easilly,
> because it is a cypher, not an encryption algorithm.
> Wrong. All cyphers are vulnerable to direct cryptanalysis, whereby the
> cryptanalyst does "counts" of certain sequences. More common sequences
> become certain common letters or words or phrases.
This is both right and wrong. A randomnized version of a known language would
be vulnerable to decyphering, but a language with an etirely new gramatical
structure, or just one that the decyperrer didn't think to compare his counts
to, would stymie such attempts. This is why ancient summerian (?) was so
tough- we had huge samples, but the lingustic structure is bizzare.
