Re: Adjusting Cryptography for the historical record?
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Re: Adjusting Cryptography for the historical record?

From: Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn@null.net>
Date: Sat Sep 17 2005 - 01:30:47 CEST



"R.M." wrote:


> anyway, to the main question - would it be possible to "embed" an


> "version-used" string in encrypted files in the encrypted portion of the


> file?



It's kind of pointless since in order to be of use the cryptanalyst


would have had to already figured out the algorithm AND key used.


This kind of information is helpful only in *unencrypted* form.


Received on Thu Sep 29 21:55:06 2005