-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 30.10.2013 23:51, schrieb Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh: > I guess I lost track of the initial purpose of this thread. Why do > you want this if you can only achieve the same cryptographic > strength as one of the ciphers? What problem are you solving?
There are multiple symmetric ciphers. Any one of them might already have been broken by an adversary, but I assume that there are many among them that are not broken. I do not know which ones are which. So, if I have ciphers A, B and C, and a way to combine them into one symmetric cpher that is at least as strong as the strongest among them, I could use this combined cipher for somewhat secure communication as long as at least one of A, B, C is not broken, even if I do not know which ones are broken. Philipp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJxjsMACgkQbtUV+xsoLpoM7ACfUWEYet6vVgtQH4PDJQmYIbBP i78AoIyoDEdCSzbzHTXUicuaxlwsWaD3 =5hUv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
