Reply to post: Re: Comey = Traitor or Idiot

FBI Director wants 'adult conversation' about backdooring encryption

The Mole

Re: Comey = Traitor or Idiot

That's not true. For encryption systems where the key is as long as the message (one time pad for instance) there is no way to brute force the encryption and identify the correct message. You may well try an encryption setting and reveal "The FBI is full of idiots", but you will also have another encryption setting which will reveal "The CIA is full of idiots" and another that says "The gov is full of idiots", there is no way of working out which is the true original message. Even when the key is shorter than the message there will still probably be multiple decryptions which may appear to be valid messages, though you can probably discard a large proportion of the decryptions if you know the syntax of the output (e.g. it will be english text).

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