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Re: Did Hezbollah use SIGINT against Israel?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Sep 22 09:39:07 2006
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:37:35 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> That isn't supposed to be possible these days... (I
> regard it as more likely that they were doing traffic
> analysis and direction-finding than actually cracking
> the ciphers.)
Ciphers cannot be cracked when used correctly. However,
military cipher procedures are often highly user
unfriendly, and in consequence seldom used correctly.
Come to think of it, we have the same problem on the
internet.
--digsig
James A. Donald
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c/n1W5sl/AyzClfoXunWJSJOHHUhW1DmgUQG8ZC3
4TpD3sBZLjv0gUHYB2nlyeJ6n8hZV0ZQ0ET1/zHLL
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