Friday, September 15, 2006

Crypt::Lite

Continued from http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Crypt-Lite

Welcome back.

No one of you have come to the point about the statistical facts. Of course I'm not an expert (and have never told smth like that!). But just wondering in general about a smart answer to one of the following questions.
  • How would you crack an encrypted text if the characters are distributed evenly?
  • What if you can't expect a long sentence written in a known language?
  • Why is a One-time hash safe under certain conditions? It's nothing else than a XOR encrpytion, isn't it?
  • Was Tripple-DES a factual error?
Not only the installation of strong crypto libs may be a pain, the usage of block ciphers as well -
please don't tell me they're much more secure - I know that already!