Reply to post: Re: The clue is in the name

Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto

Adam 1

Re: The clue is in the name

It is, but many people may not understand how it enables differential cryptanalysis. They may intuitively understand that it lowers their own security but totally misunderstand the threat model. In their minds, the risk is about whether their own message may be read, not whether they are enabling the reading of another message if the adversary holds both messages but not the key.

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