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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20
Enzo Michelangeli (em@who.net)
Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:10:01 +0800
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From: mgraffam@idsi.net <mgraffam@idsi.net>
Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 2:40 AM
>On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>
>> This explains how the "unbreakable" crap got into your literature. You
>> confuse stream ciphers with Vernam ciphers. RC4 is an OFB stream
>> cipher. It is not a Vernam cipher.
>
>As far as terminology goes.. what about something like Shamir's threshold
>scheme? I've seen sites/messages that say the OTP is the only unbreakable
>cipher, and I've seen others that lump the OTP and threshold schemes
>together.
>
>I tend to think of the OTP/Vernam cipher as a special case of Shamir's
>threshold scheme.. namely the case where you only what one share issued,
>but I still have problems with equating the two..
>
>The only term I'm aware of that covers both is a 'perfect cipher' .. which
>has other problems ;) .. anyone know of a better term?
Kleidoisometric ciphers: those with keys of the same size [as the
plaintext]. Hoping that the "iso" prefix hasn't been registered as trademark
by the International Organization of Standards ;-)
Enzo
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20