Tom Thekathyil wrote: > A wishes to send message to B. > In theory, any encrypted message is like completely random.
> Question: Is there in theory any way of breaking the corrupted > encryption through brute force? > Brute force... trying every possible key on a message until the decrypted message makes sense. Since in theory the corrupted message could be the result of encrypting the message with a different key, brute force may yield a different key, but in theory, this added encryption does not add any security. Now, is brute force feasible, no, not against any of the strong algorithms.... I don't see why one would bother, not in this way. > Regards, tt > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 3000 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 PGP Key fingerprint = 6367 DFE9 5CBC 0737 7D16 B3F6 048A 02BF DC93 94EC "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
