Re: Meganet on Cryptogram again
From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/19/03
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:54:12 +0200
Michael Amling writes:
> It indicates that the software does not perform authentication.
Authentication of what?
> Authentication is good.
Maybe, maybe not. You might not want an adversary to be able to
determine whether a key is correct without examining the decrypted
result. Telling him if it is correct or not facilitates a key search.
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