The symmetric ciphers

[Peter Lebbing]

On 31/10/13 16:37, vedaal at nym.hush.com wrote:
> The advantage is, that if it should ever be possible to brute force the
> keyspace of one key, then NONE of the possible elements of the keyspace
> (including the *correct* key) will result in an identifiable *correct*
> plaintext. It will only result in random ciphertext.

Then again: If brute forcing a key costs you all the energy in this solar
system, you don't have any light to read the decrypted message by. And that's
what we're talking about here.

So: forget about brute-forcing.

HTH,

Peter.

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