Re: Listening to Crypto

From: Michael Amling (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 03:01:37 GMT

flip wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am giving a talk that includes some discussion on crypto.
>
> Instead of showing a typical figure of plaintext versus ciphertext, I was
> wondering if one could "listen" to encrypted music.
>
> For example, take B's Sonata (an mp3) and AES encrypt it.

   Can you get the resulting ciphertext to be in a valid mp3 format? If
so, how? If not, how would you play it?

   Wouldn't it be better to, say, represent the sound in 8-bit or 16-bit
PCM form, where all values would be valid? Then the ciphertext is playable.

--Mike Amling

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