Articles:
A Programmable Plaintext Recognizer
David A. Wagner; Steven Michael Bellovin
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- Title:
- A Programmable Plaintext Recognizer
- Author(s):
-
Wagner, David A.
Bellovin, Steven Michael - Date:
- 1994
- Type:
- Articles
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:9120
- Abstract:
- Other researchers have studied the feasibility of a brute force attack on DES using several known plaintexts. In practice, know plaintext/ciphertext pairs may not be readily available, but statistical information about similar plaintexts is much more easily aquired. Accordingly, we design a statistical plaintext recognizer suitable for use in a ciphertext-only key search machine. Software simulations indicate that this design gives a powerful attack on the encryption of low-entropy data.
- Subject(s):
- Computer science
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