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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: secret stuff
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:19:39 CDT."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 19:08:32 -0400
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> Nobody designed the system to be crackable, but we have a 2nd Law of
> Thermodynamics to contend with. There is no such thing as a uncrackable
> system.

One-time pads and hyper-encryption under the bounded storage model are
both `uncrackable.'  Even under computational models beyond that of
Church et al, and with against adversaries with infinite resources.

	- Dan C.