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From: Luc The Perverse <sll_noSpamlicious_z_XXX_m@cc.usu.edu>
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 01:56:34 CET

"George Orwell" <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote in message
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> Anonymous wrote:
>
>> How about this?
>>
>> you encrypt a file and call it abc.dll. You have another dll, xyz.dll.
>> That could also be an encrypted file.
>>
>> You run a little program that exchanges every other byte between the two
>> files.
>>
>> Could the TLA figure out that they are something other than ordinay
>> binary
>> garbage?
>
> Easily.
>
> There would be a huge entropy difference in "every other byte" sequences
> in two files. Plus, you'd have two completely useless DLL's. I doubt you'd
> fool even a newbie TLA snoop to be honest. They're more thorough that
> that.
>
> You're describing a form of "security through obscurity". something that's
> long been looked on as utterly useless in the crypto world.

I hate to sound so dense

But what is TLA? google define didn't help

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Received on Thu Jan 19 03:45:07 2006