Kiss (cryptanalysis)
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Kiss (cryptanalysis)
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In cryptanalysis, a kiss is a pair of identical messages sent using different ciphers, one of which has been broken. The term was used at Bletchley Park during World War II. A deciphered message in the breakable system provided a "crib" which could then be used to read the unbroken messages. One example was where messages read in a German meteorological cipher could be used to provide cribs for reading the difficult 4-wheel Naval Enigma cipher.
- cribs from re-encipherments... were known as 'k
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(cryptanalysis)
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2005-11-04T14:28:21Z
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2024-09-05T07:29:41Z
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