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in thread Unbreakable crypto

Because "chester" is 7 letters?
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Re^4: Unbreakable crypto
by thor (Priest) on May 19, 2004 at 15:20 UTC
    If you want to be a stickler for the "details", I suppose you're right. But what you didn't see was there was a NUL at the end of "rob_au", thus making it seven characters. ;)

    thor

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      And "6-letter string" was the encoded form of "7-letter string"? ;-P
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        Not necessarily...I was saying that both were equally likely decodings of some seven-letter string. Thus, "rob_au^@" and "chester" are equivalent with respect to liklihood of decryption.

        thor

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