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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: The lost key
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 10:05:57 +0100
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On 04/04/2025 09:51, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> 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

As I said in my OP:

ciphertext: f5dfacff56e1494715ead7028fc288b5
plaintext : 2f682c420d4f5cd443719f33050eac67

Clearly they are not the same, or their md5sums would be the same.

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