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From: Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid>
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Subject: Re: an scos2 test...
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:24:21 +0100
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On 31/07/2024 05:09, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 7/30/2024 9:08 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> On 7/27/2024 12:20 AM, Richard Harnden wrote:
>>> On 27/07/2024 01:20, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
>> The key space is not that massive, so it can be brute forced for sure. 
>> However, its interesting wrt the plaintext. What if the plaintext is 
>> generated from a random source?
> 
> Afaict, if the plaintext is random, then its going to be hard to 
> identify it as a legit plaintext?

If the plain text is random, then you'd never know if you got the 
correct decrypt anyway.

It only works for English (or C) text.  It seems to work okay for French 
and "lorem ipsum". It doesn't like German.

It's doubtless slower cpu-timewise that brute forcing. It saves on 
eyeball-time.