entropy depletion (was: SSL/TLS passive sniffing)

[Taral]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:35:05PM +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
> By how much exactly? I'd say, _under the hypothesis that the one-way
> function can't be broken and other attacks fail_, exactly zero; in the
> real world, maybe a little more.

Unfortunately for your analysis, *entropy* assumes that there is
infinite compute capacity. From an information-theoretic point of view,
there is NO SUCH THING as a perfect one-way function.

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