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Re: Patterns

From "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.security.unix, sci.crypt
Subject Re: Patterns
Date 2024-02-15 18:39 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <uqmhtl$3ilmr$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <uqhgi2$2gjm1$2@dont-email.me> <uqj7eo$2q28i$3@dont-email.me> <uqln3h$2pbms$1@i2pn2.org> <uqlq0s$3f0e5$1@dont-email.me> <uqlrlj$2pi12$1@i2pn2.org>

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On 2/15/2024 12:20 PM, Stefan Claas wrote:
> Rich wrote:
> 
>> In sci.crypt Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:
>>> Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> 
>>>> Or even the other way around? If one knows the OTP (Bob and/or
>>>> Alice), they can create a special plaintext that generates this
>>>> output for fun.
>>>
>>> How would you do this?
>>
>> For a traditional, 1940's substution style OTP, it is trivial:
>>
>> Message: The
>>
>> Pad:
>>
>> T=H
>> e=r
>> h=e
>>
>> Substitute using the pad, get the encrypted message: Her
> 
> Well, one uses a substitution table, trigraph, etc. and then
> a pad to encrypt the message. Otherwise it would be a plain
> text encoded message, right?

Give me a OPT 3 bytes long. Creating a plaintext that results in a 
ciphertext of say 123, or ABC is possible...

>   
>>> It had been best if the OP had posted a reference URL ...
>>
>> I doubt OP found the string at some URL.  I suspect the OP was
>> trolling.
> 
> That was my thought too and the reason why I did not reply to him
> directly.
> 
> Regards
> Stefan

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