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nine_kyesterday at 10:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

The cypher may be prefectly impenetrable, but the software running on the transmitter or receiver may be more brittle. You cannot attack what you don't even know exists nearby.


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Retr0idyesterday at 10:57 PM

A secure cipher is indistinguishable from random data, you can't infer what software is on either end just by eavesdropping.

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g-b-rtoday at 12:14 AM

You really need to look up the Kirchoff principle