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From: Greg Trotter [SMTP:greg@ou.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 1997 3:15 PM
To: Thompson, Christopher; 'deschall@gatekeeper.megasoft.com'
Subject: Re: Plaintext
>At 3:38 PM -0500 7/2/97, Thompson, Christopher wrote:
>>If we hadn't have known _anything_ about the plain text of the
>>DES-encrypted message, we wouldn't have been able to decrypt
>it, even
>>using brute force. Is this correct?
>Right. As others have pointed out, however, someone trying to
>crack
>encrypted data will probably have some idea as to what's
>inside.
>Now... data that is multiply encrypted offers a great deal more
>protection,
>I imagine... once you find the correct key for the outermost
>later of
>encryption, the data you have is still encrypted. I don't
>profess to know a
>lot about encryption, but I would imagine that the encrypted
>data
>underneath might not be detectable as the proper data.
Unless you decrypt it and find that it says:
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