Michael Motyka (mmotyka@lsil.com)
Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:34:34 -0800
Your theory "feels" correct but in one of the more popular real world
scenarios the $resource$ ratio for the cracker to the encryptor could be
as high as 10^5 or 10^6 : 1.
Mike
bram wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, bram wrote:
>
> > I have a theory that no matter what computing machine is available, as
> > long as the same machine is available to both the encrypter and the
> > cracker, the cracker wins (barring non-turing complete machinery, of
> > course.)
>
> Jim Gillogly pointed out that I misspoke - I meant to say 'the encrypter
> wins'
>
> -Bram
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