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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: The lost key
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 01:51:56 -0700
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On 4/4/2025 12:35 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 04/04/2025 07:54, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> The lost key makes me think of brute forcing SCOS.
> 
> You remind me of a general --- always ready to fight the last war.
> 
>  From the OP: "I lost my key, so it's not locked."
> 
> Clearly, if it's not locked there isn't a key (because it's lost), so 
> what precisely are you going to brute force?
> 

Don't tell me the ciphertext _is_ the plaintext? ;^o