Re: Encryption algorithm from cipher texts

2008-11-10 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Fri November 7 2008, Chris Cheung wrote: > Hi all, > > my question may not be directly related to OpenSSL, but I don't know > where else better to seek for answer, so... > It is a general question - Give it a bit of thought, the answer should be obvious - If the encryption is "perfect" then

Encryption algorithm from cipher texts

2008-11-10 Thread Chris Cheung
Hi all, my question may not be directly related to OpenSSL, but I don't know where else better to seek for answer, so... I'm curious to know, given a number of cipher texts, how hard it is to know, if at all possible, what algorithm was used to generate that? Chris _