Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)
by remus on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:08AM
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Interesting stuff. I guess it gets in to what counts as a a brute force, as most of the brute force attacks I've seen (e.g. password cracking) lean pretty heavily on clever maths and statistical hacks to reduce the search space as much as possible.
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Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)
by DSMan195276 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @11:16AM
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That's fair, there's probably more gray area in the definition than I suggested. I think the difference to me is that this is exploiting a weakness in the encryption itself rather than just guessing what the likely combination is. For password cracking, you're typically not exploiting the encryption but rather what passwords are more likely to be used than others.