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Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption
Several readers have pointed to an Israeli company's claim of achieving unbreakable encryption. The linked article reports this claim uncritically. Do you think there's such a thing as unbreakable encryption? This isn't the first time someone's made this claim, or second, or third ...
> This isn't the first time someone's made this claim, or second, or third ...
And if this story gets reposted, it'll seem like a fourth!
Wonderful article, but how good is encryption when your fundamental flaw in data security is the people who use it?
Case in point: 128-bit SSL keys, MD5 hashed passwords on a system utilizing firewalls and a database whose data is encrypted by the super-uncrackable-key(tm)... owner connects to the site over the internet via telnet...
We should invent encrypted people. That way not only would data be safe, but it's so secure the guy next to you has no idea what you're talking about!
Sincerely,
-Matt
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Which is unfortunately 2x the size of the original message.
Ho hum...
-- The universe began. Life started on a billion worlds...
-- Except on one where stupidity was there first.
A preview from next month's Dog House section of the Crypto-Gram.
A One Million bit key? Unbreakable? Schneier is going to have a field day with this one.
How can a deterministic computer create anything more then pseudorandom ?
By using lava lamps, of course
Jason
ProfQuotes
...Ask Kevin Mitnick - Part II.
Take input file and pipe it to dev/nul,
Take dev/random and pipe it to output file.
Guaranteed unbreakable encryption!
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
This is so incredible I just can't read anymore.
>There is no uncrackable encryption. therefore, information is free.
free as beer? or Free as speech?
It's my girlfriend. Many men have tried, and to date none have been able to figure her out.
Bit pricy though.
There used to be a Windows program called "Unbreakable security" which, among other things, could encrypt a file and put it in self opening .exe file (you had to enter the password).
So I tried to crack the program and found out it was fairly easy to do (took me a few hours). But then I discovered that the program had a bug which caused the blank password to be accepted as valid password. So much about Unbreakable security.
How do the parties get the pads?
Via email. Use a one-time-pad to encypt it.
I know what it is like to be misunderstood. I have this brilliant, gauranteed, money making scheme that no-one has faith in. If you send my £25 I will tell you all about it.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
I invented a _really_ unbreakable encryption, 5600 times more unbreakable than theirs.
Give recipient the key, being a CD-ROM full of random numbers, and tell him to xor every bit of the encrypted message with the corresponding bit on the CD, at an offset that starts at the message's timecode.
700 MB (5600 Mb) key length - let them suck on that. As secure as the physical protection of the key CD itself.
There's probably 2 million people who can code in C in India alone.
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
British firm claims unsinkable ship...
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
doesn't work. It just keeps going faster and faster."
It is the perennial cry of the snake oil crowd that the "establishment" won't take their claims seriously. It never, *ever* seems to occur to them that this is because their claims are *provably* whacko. Especially where purely mathmatical structures are concerned.
Most snake oil saleman didn't do very well in math at school, although this personal limitation has never seemed to stand in the way of their being able to seriously cook a set of books to display for the investors.
KFG
at infinite typewriters eventually produce the great works of shakespear?
That theory was proved false by the invention of Usenet.
new ferrari: approx. $200,000.
$1,000,000 - $200,000 = $800,000
These guys are cryptographers?
I'll take the million dollars and buy 5 ferraris thanks.
-he who laughs last, is a bit slow.
journal
... but the opinions of the New York Times editorial staff certainly are. :)
I can't believe the press falls for the following claims which have a track record of being 100% false:
1) The end of the world is coming... next year.
2) 150MPG Automobile
3) Unbreakable Encryption/Copy Protection/Computer Security (this claim replaced the uncrackable safe and the unpickable lock)
4) We'll run out of food in 10 years!
5) This year, the Cubs will win the World Series
-- $G
Israeli firms generates free publicity with ludicrous claims.
pls
There's a link at random.org: "For non-random numbers, try NoEntropy.net! "
From their site:
A mouthful, no? There's a form you can fill out to request deterministic numbers (up to 10,000). The default is 100.
The punchline: all the numbers are "1".
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.