Three mistakes about cryptography

Oliver 2021-12-31 08:02:38

1. The secret messages (ciphertext) encrypted by modern cryptography are all binary strings, that is, a string composed of 0 or 1. It cannot be a string as the child sees, and the ciphertext is a string. The era ended as early as the 1960s.

2. What the child saw was the ciphertext, and the message (plaintext) was directly deciphered through the ciphertext without discussing whether it was true (but obviously it was fabricated). This can only show the incompetence of the cryptographic system or the lack of storytellers Common sense of password. Now all international standard cryptographic algorithms require selective ciphertext attacks, which means that a password breaker can not only get the ciphertext, but also the plaintext corresponding to the ciphertext. He still cannot crack the system. Such a system is safe.

3. The technology of a cryptographic system must be completely public, and its security only depends on the use of the secret key (key) of the cryptographic system. That extremely mysterious "mercury" system, go to hell, no one will use it. We must know that in the 1970s, the international encryption algorithm (DES) formulated by the United States was criticized and resisted by the people because it did not disclose the design principles. After that, all international encryption standards must disclose the design principles and open source code.

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  • Lomax: [to Jeffries] Sometimes you got something... just magic, and then it goes away. You had it, but the magic's gone.

  • Nick Kudrow: You know what I think, Mr. Jeffries? I think you've seen too many of those four wheel drive commercials on TV.

    [Art laughs and claps his hands]

    Nick Kudrow: The ones where you get to drive fast and be a renegade? Let's talk about the real world for a moment, shall we, where you're not some wonderful, lone wolf hero, but you're part of a team, and you play your position, because that's what America is, Mr. Jeffries. It's one big team. Now this might be difficult for you to grasp, but I am a patriot. And a patriot is one who makes the right moral choice. Sometimes it takes a strong man to make that choice. One boy cannot survive on his own. One of nature's mistakes weighed against the lives of thousands of our people. Think about it. You worked undercover. How many of our agents will be put in harm's way if this code is compromised? Members of your team. Men like Rashid Halabi, an Iraqi-American, and a great patriot. A man who as we speak is undercover in Saddam's Republican Guard. A man who has not seen his family...

    [Art kicks him in the stomach]

    Art Jeffries: That's for Simon's parents, you piece of shit!