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Re: Brute Force attack Question


Igor Chudov writes:
> What is Alice and Bob decide to obscure their letters and add random
> NON-ASCII  characters at random places?

Assuming I'm using a statistics based technique, that won't help.

Superencipherment might, but then again, thats sort of what 3DES is, right?

> If percentage of ASCII characters in all 256 byte space is 40%, Alice
> and Bob may agree to put in junk characters to make up exactly 60% of
> the message. This way messages will look like random character data.

Nope, it wouldn't. The statistics would be off.

Perry