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Re:"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't by darkmighty on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @03:17AM (#7558074)
Actually, perfect secrecy refers to the ability to determine any information about the plaintext at all, given arbitrary decoding power. It's quite simple -- it means that given a standard distribution of keys and an a priori distribution over the plain texts the best estimate of the plaintext given the ciphertext is simply the a priori distribution (no additional information). For the binary case, Y(any distribution)+X(uniform)=Z(uniform) (mod 2), so that this is satisfied for any prior.

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