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Re: Patterns

From William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups comp.security.unix, sci.crypt
Subject Re: Patterns
Date 2024-02-20 23:47 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <ur3dlm$2ob56$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <uqgk8m$28cuj$1@dont-email.me> <uqhgi2$2gjm1$2@dont-email.me> <uqj7eo$2q28i$3@dont-email.me> <uqln3h$2pbms$1@i2pn2.org> <ur34f6$2mh1p$1@dont-email.me>

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On 2024-02-20, Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/15/2024 11:02 AM, Stefan Claas wrote:
>> Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2/13/2024 8:45 PM, Rich wrote:
>>>> In sci.crypt Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 2/12/2024 5:30 PM, The Doctor wrote:
>>>>>> Deos anyone how what encryption is being used here?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *1234567890ABCDEF01234567890ABCDEF0123456
>>>>>
>>>>> None? lol. just kidding. Humm...
>>>>>
>>>>> Some combination of plaintext, secret key and cipher algorithm
>>>>> generated it.  Probably, the plaintext was hand crafted?  ;^)
>>>>
>>>> As Jacob correctly pointed out, if one knows the message, one can
>>>> then 'hand craft' a one-time-pad to generate exactly this output
>>>> from that message.
>>>
>>> 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? I mean the OP IMHO does not show an encrypted
>> string, done with an OTP. OTPs nature is that it does not include
>> patterns and is totally random.
>
> If Bob and Alice have access to the same OPT, one of them can create a 
> special plaintext that can give the message in the ciphertext, or 
> whatever... Think about it... ;^)

Yes, Just do the inverse of the OTP (if it is just xor then xor is also
the inverst) and run it over the encrypted text and get what would have
to have beenused to generate that encrypted text. But one of the
absolutely critical things about OTPs is that it should be irremediably
destroyed after it is used to encrypt the message. So only the person
who ha not already used the OTP should have the OTP.


>
>
>> 
>> Even if this string is not encrypted and only encoded, how would one
>> get such pattern from plain text and convert it back to plain text?

OTP xor PlainText=EncryptedText
OTP xor EncryptedText=PlainText.

>> 
>> It had been best if the OP had posted a reference URL ...
>> 
>> Regards
>> Stefan
>

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Patterns doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2024-02-13 01:30 +0000
  Re: Patterns Jakob Bohm <jb-usenet@wisemo.invalid> - 2024-02-13 16:44 +0100
  Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-13 12:43 -0800
    Re: Patterns Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-02-14 04:45 +0000
      Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-14 12:22 -0800
        Re: Patterns Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-02-15 20:02 +0100
          Re: Patterns Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-02-15 19:51 +0000
            Re: Patterns Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-02-15 21:20 +0100
              Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 18:39 -0800
                Re: Patterns Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-02-16 17:57 +0100
                Re: Patterns Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-02-16 18:07 +0100
                Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-16 12:26 -0800
                Re: Patterns William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2024-02-17 00:25 +0000
                Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-16 17:12 -0800
                Re: Patterns Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-02-17 05:39 +0000
                Re: Patterns William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2024-02-18 21:04 +0000
          Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-20 13:09 -0800
            Re: Patterns Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-02-20 21:55 +0000
              Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-20 14:15 -0800
                Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-20 14:17 -0800
              Re: Patterns doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2024-02-20 22:17 +0000
            Re: Patterns William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2024-02-20 23:47 +0000
            Re: Patterns Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-02-21 19:24 +0100
              Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-22 16:21 -0800
                Re: Patterns Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-02-23 15:00 +0100
                Re: Patterns Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-02-23 19:59 +0100
                Re: Patterns "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-23 12:23 -0800
                Re: Patterns Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-02-24 20:25 +0100

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