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Re:If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of ... by adenadel on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:41PM (#11456869)
It looks like probably secure is defined in cryptography to mean breaking the algorithm is equivalent to solving the underlying intractable problem [0]. In my mind provably secure meant that the problem was actually intractable (which is not the convention).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provable_security

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Re:If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of ... by swordswinger12 on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:10PM (#11457528)
That is the conventional meaning of 'provably secure' in every text and research paper on modern cryptography.
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