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Re: IPG Algorith Broken!
John Anonymous MacDonald writes:
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> At 8:09 AM 11/23/1996, Eric Murray wrote:
> >No, you can't. It's impossible to prove an algorithim unbreakable.
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> No? Please prove your assertion.
You can't prove a negative. The best IPG could say is that
it can't be broken with current technology.
Next week someone might come up with a new way
to break ciphers that renders the IPG algorithim breakable.
You point could have been that the same problem exists
for proofs- that next week someone could come up
with a way to prove, for all time, that an algorithim
really IS unbreakable. So, to cover that posibility
I should have said "it's currently impossible to
prove an algorithim unbreakable". :-)
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