[945] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Dorothy and the four Horseman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Jun 6 14:26:36 1997
To: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Cc: sameer <sameer@c2.net>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 06 Jun 1997 12:37:34 -0400
In-Reply-To: Carl Ellison's message of Thu, 05 Jun 1997 18:03:51 -0400
Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com> writes:
>> To bring it closer to home, does undecrypted ciphertext "exist" any more
>> than the sound waves which went unrecorded in that men's room? ...legally,
>> that is?
Yes. There is always a chance that the message can be decrypted, by
brute force, cryptanalysis, or other techniques (of varying
legitimacy). The sound waves are gone forever.
Marc
