David Schwartz wrote:
Every known key, provided there are not too many known keys, is weak.
Once again, you have a very idiosyncratic lexicon of cryptographic terms. How about if we use these words the way cryptographers do? A weak key is one that causes a cipher to leak private data in the ciphertext, or reveal key structure in a timing attack, or makes the implementation vulnerable to an adaptive chosen-plaintext attack, etc. A diminished keyspace reduces the number of keys to be attempted in a brute force attack. This may or may not be significant. If the reduction in keyspace means a brute force attack effort is reduced by half to merely half the life of the universe, that might be a worthwhile tradeoff. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
