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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: A new encryption problem?
- Message-ID: <7986@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 19:46:42 GMT
- References: <lfjmkiINNa74@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- In article <lfjmkiINNa74@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) writes:
- > Require: (for-all p)( (c=E(p)) is a text which appears to be
- > a plaintext)
-
-
- The problem here is that both c and p must carry information and be
- believable both in style and as a real communication. ("The pen of my aunt
- is on the table" doesn't pass as a real communication even though it parses
- correctly.) So, the encrypted text must be hidden in the free choices of
- the cover communication. Since that cover communication needs to be
- uniform in style, so as to fool the censors, you have very few choices.
- This means that the bit rate is rather low...or, in other words, the
- ciphertext will be much larger than the plaintext.
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