Re: Triple encryption...

[Berzerk <berzerk@xmission.xmission.com>]

On Sun, 17 Jul 1994, Carl Ellison wrote:
> where that leads me.  If there were such attacks, they would rely on
> information about the key leaking into the ciphertext, independent of the
> plaintext.  It might be possible to prove that any key-driven permutation
This is bogus.  No symetric algorithim has this characteristic, in fact, 
the 1 on 1 nature of the algorithim precludes this as the total ammount 
of information is equal to the information in the plaintext.  The proof 
is simple enumeration.

Roger.