Re: code cracking or how do you know you've got the correct key?

From: Joe Peschel (jpeschel_at_no.spam.org)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:58:54 -0000

Martin Bodenstedt <martin.bodenstedt@gmx.de> wrote in
news:cqu4lq$frf$1@news.BelWue.DE:

> The reason for my post was the book's idea of having a computer with
> "Millions of processors" - read that as "unlimited computing power" -
> being fed encrypted files with no other information to decrypt them
> using brute force. That might work on eMails (plain ascii text that is)
> but certainly not on arbitrary stuff...
>

No. It should work on "arbitrary" stuff, if an arbitrary file is some real
file type, with only a few exceptions. We just set up our detector to
recognize various types of plaintext, including ASCII text and portions of
various file headers.

J 

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