Re: potential break or real break?

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:16:29 +1100, "Antony Clements"
<antony.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

to my knowledge, which is limited in this field, every cipher can be brute
forced. whether it is practical to do so is another matter entirely.
No, an OTP cannot be brute forced. All you get if you brute force an
OTP is a list of all possible plaintexts of that length, with no way
to pick between them.

Provided the cyphertext is long enough (unicity distance) then any
other cypher can in principle be brute forced. Your point about
practicality is of course valid.

rossum

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