Re:Encryption is less secure than we thought
by tehwalrus on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:20AM
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no, it means knowing the algorithm allows you to infer more information from the encrypted data, because the "real" entropy (as opposed to the apparently now defunct Shannon entropy) will be much smaller than you expect (you have to try less brute force guesses.)
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