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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 ...
Any news article claiming that a "Company develops unbreakable data encryption code" is silly. Unbreakable data encryption has been developed long ago, it's called a one time pad and there is strong mathematical proof that it's unbreakable. The problem is, of course, it's key distribution - but that's another story.
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One day, a guy came along and said: "The Earth is not flat, it is [mostly] a spere!"
So 1) this guy had an unbelievable claim (not flat Earth) and 2) the extremely knowledgeable scientific community, who has much experience with flat Earth, heard his saying and called it b*llsh*t.
[And they burnt him alive for good measure]
The Earth is flat. Move along.
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Go on then, prove it.
Crack it for us.
Heck, you would even win their competition for $1,000,000 and a Ferrari.
So come on bigmouth, prove it.
People should not be afraid of their governments - Governments should be afraid of their people.
'unbreakable encryption' is like the perfect woman. She should be a virgin, but how can you guarantee that unless she doesn't have a ..... that could have been 'broken' before you came along. And without a .... she's not very perfect, is she? Catch-22.
The perfect encryption scheme would need to be created inviolate. Created by imaculate conception, not by the hands of man, nor under the eyes of man. But since it is up to man to craft it, then it can't be perfect...that is to say it can't be made....it can never exist.
If you make it, and I hold a gun to your head and you tell me the key (or at least give me a running start on how to pick the lock), then it's all over. It matters not how cryptic it may have been. The key is going to be in someone's head, and that is enough to mean it can be 'broken'.
The Universe is a safe, with the key locked inside.
yet another load of snakeoil, nothing to see here, move along please... read Bruce Schneier's CryptoGram Newsletter... drink beer! Eat food! etc etc
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe