Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:02:02 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: partially encrypted filesystem |
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On Thu, 4 December 2003 19:18:26 +0000, David Wagner wrote: > > What? No. Modern cryptosystems are designed to be secure against > known plaintext attacks. Making your system more convoluted merely to > avoid providing known plaintext is a lousy design approach: the extra > complexity usually adds more risk than it removes.
All cryptosystems are designed around the hope that noone figures out how to break them. Many smart people trying and failing to do so gives a good general feeling, but nothing more. It remains hope.
How can you claim that modern cryptosystems are immune to known plaintext attacks?
Jörn
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