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Re: IPG Algorith Broken!
At 4:21 PM 11/23/96 -0800, John Anonymous MacDonald wrote:
>At 12:33 PM 11/23/1996, Eric Murray wrote:
>>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". :-)
>
>Or, more accurately, nobody credible has seen such a proof. But, a
>clever person might invent one.
I thought Shannon proved one-time-pads to be unbreakable using information
theory.
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