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Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption

Posted by timothy on from the jackson-pollock-claims-prior-art dept.

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 ...

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  1. Encryption and compression by atcurtis · · Score: 5, Funny
    I have an amazing encryption and compression method - it encrypts and compresses any message into a single binary bit! No one else can decipher the message... not even the recipient... unless they have the decryption key...

    Which is unfortunately 2x the size of the original message.

    Ho hum...

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  2. My unbreakable encryption scheme! by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:My unbreakable encryption scheme! by cthugha · · Score: 5, Funny

      Guaranteed unbreakable encryption!

      Not entirely. There is a slight chance that the output from /dev/random will be identical to the original message. :)

  3. This reminds me.. by attackiko · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.