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How would a mathematician rate the strength of this encryption?

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Is there a standard way to rate encryptions?

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    10 years ago
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    I believe you refer to this portion:

    the true author of the Vuvuzela Concerto also knows how to decrypt this number

    32,667,412,814,139,852,730,752,490,966,405,430,384,344,518,561,830,544,512,803,828,149,073,891,719,578,179,112

    in such a way that their answers to the questions above are confirmed as correct.

    That 83 digit number probably requires 256 bits to represent in binary, or perhaps slightly more. It could be very weak "encryption" such as reading 8 bit ASCII characters from the binary string that results from converting decimal to binary. Or it might be that a binary string representing ASCII characters was XOR'd with some simple pattern. Or it might be the result of using a strong encryption algorithm, such as AES, on a string of text. One can't infer the method used by simply looking at the result. One might have a clue if they went to the trouble to convert the decimal number to binary.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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