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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 ...
'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.