Re: Are natural languages secure ciphers?

From: Paul Schlyter (pausch_at_saaf.se)
Date: 10/06/03 

Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 06:49:43 +0000 (UTC)

In article <a6l0ovksq19vbrkh6iq1fclaa7nbsnkk93@4ax.com>,
George Ou <234george_ou532@netzero234.com> wrote:
 
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:20:30 +0000 (UTC), pausch@saaf.se (Paul
> Schlyter) wrote:
>
>> What is "ZIP compression"?
>>
>> There's no compression algorithm called "ZIP compression". However,
>> the ZIP file compressor and archiver uses four or five different
>> algorithms, choosing the one which produces the smallest compressed
>> version for a particular file. There's even a "compression algorithm"
>> called "Storing" which doesn't compress at all but merely copies the
>> data -- it's there to ensure that the compressed version never grows
>> larger than the uncompressed version of the file.
>
> There is also no such thing as "AES algorithm", but many people use it
> in that context.
 
The NIST disagrees with you:
 
  http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/rijndael/
  http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf
 
Some years ago, before the AES algorithm had been selected, you would
have been right. But today you're wrong....
  

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