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Re: DESCrack keyspace partitioning
[email protected] wrote:
>
> What about the heuristics of partitioning the keyspace?
>
> Seems to me that a _subset_ of all possible keys is much more likely
> to appear than a random selection from an equidistributed population 0..2^56.
>
> (P)RNG's just aren't that likely to produce a key of 010101010.....
> nor 001100110011...
Why? They seem just as likely as any other sequence.
etc etc and I have been thinking about how one might formalize
> and exploit this randomness property to increase the probability of finding the key sooner.
Again, which randomness property?
Gary
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