On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Owen O' Shaughnessy wrote:
> Your degree of verbosity on the subject far exceeds my
> understanding of both the topic and the english language,
And yet you chose to reply...
<snip gibberish>
a) Digests don't have keys. Though, digests often are used in
conjunction with keys, in such modes these digests may still be
useful.
b) taking file length into account might work if the message being
'attacked' had no way to allow insertion of 'do nothing' padding
(many message formats have some way to add padding) to allow the
size of one to be made match the other.
> Jackma & Co ;-D
You got my name wrong too.
regards,
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