Standard for SteGAnography
Sergey Goldgaber
sergey at delbruck.pharm.sunysb.edu
Sat Mar 5 00:22:13 PST 1994
On Fri, 4 Mar 1994, Eli Brandt wrote:
> > know = 100% objective certainty
>
> Well, OTP gives you this. Probabilistic encryption does too, I
> think (the original version -- not the practical version). Quantum
> cryptography is pretty close, depending on how much trust you place
> in the laws of physics. Granted, none of these are very useful.
>
Newbie questions: What is OTP? What about probabilistic encryption
vs quantum cryptography?
How do they give one 100% certainty that they can't be broken?
> The question is, 100% objective certainty of *what*? If breaking a
> scheme were provably exponential-time, that'd be enough for me.
>
100% objective certainty of the scheme's invulnerability.
> > Sergey
>
> Eli ebrandt at hmc.edu
>
>
Sergey :)
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