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Sounds like a pretty weak cypher by todays standards. 90 million combinations seems like it would be fairly easy to brute force. Still, it's interesting to see
by redthrowaway 16y ago
Sounds like a pretty weak cypher by todays standards. 90 million combinations seems like it would be fairly easy to brute force. Still, it's interesting to see that some of his ideas, like row operations on matrices, are still used in some crypto algos today.
- ceejayoz 16y agoThe article says "90 millions of millions", which is a little larger than 90 million.
- redthrowaway 16y agoYes, but how much longer?
- wladimir 16y agoIndeed, by todays standards it's pretty weak. Then again, 200 years is a long time, and back in the day all the grunt work had to be performed by humans instead of computers. Brute forcing was not a realistic possibility.
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