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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!taco!che17!Webbge
- From: Webbge@che17.ncsu.EDU (Greg Earl Webb)
- Subject: Padded Data
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.153719.28374@ncsu.edu>
- Keywords: pascal crypt
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: Webbge@che17.ncsu.EDU (Greg Earl Webb)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Jul31.135011.14195@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:37:19 GMT
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- I've seen some interesting posts here recently, but I have yet to
- see the topic of padding data with garbage. It seems to me that
- if you had an algorithm that would not only encrypt the data, but would
- also insert random data into the original data (without following
- a regular pattern) that it would be almost impossible for someone
- to tell what was real information and what was just junk. Although
- the size of the document would increase, the difficulty in decrypting
- the message would also increase considerably.
-
- The only problem I can see with this method is how do you insert data
- in a non-regular pattern and still have the ability to remove it later.
- Please comment on this type of procedure. I'm sure people have thought
- on these lines before and would be interested in seeing what they have
- to say......
-
- Greg Webb
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