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Standard with one time pads (and symmetric encryption in general) — the key and plaintext are a shared secret.
by clord 13y ago
Standard with one time pads (and symmetric encryption in general) — the key and plaintext are a shared secret.
- andrewcooke 13y agoit's not standard with symmetric encryption in general; it's a "known plaintext attack". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known-plaintext_attack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known-plaintext_attack - with aes, for example, even if you know the plaintext there is no known way to obtain the key (faster than brute force search).