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[Cryptography] XORing plaintext with ciphertext
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Horsfall)
Sat Sep 7 04:02:50 2013
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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 17:14:21 +1000 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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Got a question that's been bothering me for a whlie, but it's likely
purely academic.
Take the plaintext and the ciphertext, and XOR them together. Does the
result reveal anything about the key or the painttext?
-- Dave
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