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Re: DESCrack keyspace partitioning
[email protected] wrote:
>
> Another thinking step: most real-world DES keys are derived from
> hashes. Not (P)RNGs.
Hashes? Hashes of what?
> The distributions are **not** uniform.
Then that's a wonderful weakness in the cryptosystem. Let's fix it.
> The goal is to search the most likely keys first, and
> not all keys are created equally.
Any cryptosystem for which one can compute likely vs. unlikely keys
has already been partially compromised.
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