Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.misty.com!not-for-mail From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: iCloud Hacked Article Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 05:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: MGT Consulting Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <2012080700010178635-jeffnospam@jnadeaucom> <8t48f9-7qh.ln1@news1.chingola.ch> <080820121836328532%star@sky.net> Reply-To: gsm@mendelson.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.178.31.50.adsl.012.net.il X-Trace: max.inside.misty.com 1344490443 27570 80.178.31.50 (9 Aug 2012 05:34:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@misty.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 05:34:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-11 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:29230 Davoud wrote: > The attack on Enigma was aided by misuse of keys, captured keys, and > re-used keys, and intimate knowledge of the workings of the machine. In > the same vein, we read certain Soviet messages in what came to be known > as the Venona project. If those OTP's had been used properly the > ciphers would never have been broken. As it was, it required years of > painstaking work. > True. However it started out because someone sitting at a desk looking at encrypted messages noticed there was a pattern, and that was used to exploit the errors, etc. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379