<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 13:45 Nicko van Someren <<a href="mailto:nicko@nicko.org">nicko@nicko.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto">> On Jan 10, 2026, at 13:13, Jon Callas <<a href="mailto:jon@callas.org" target="_blank">jon@callas.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> It's not even like that is a new thing. Back in the idealized era of Enigma/Lorentz decryptions, one of the major tasks was not decrypting messages so much as finding things worth decrypting. Decrypting the morning weather report isn't particularly useful. <br>
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Well, actually specifically decrypting the morning weather report turned out to be very useful in the case of Enigma, because it was so predictable that it provided an excellent crib. As a result once you cracked the morning weather report you could get all the other traffic using that day's key. The rest of your argument all still holds though!</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cryptography is very important when one target is identified. In the above, “those in need of weather”. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When you are that one target and you are one individual in the target, decryption collapses for the one target and quantum tools become critical. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Discovering the “one” target is the iceberg problem. It is giant under the flood of information. In mining minerals it is called benefaction or milling systems. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">An interesting “one” surfaces in linked block chain systems and money games.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The net worth of the top 1% makes them a 1 target.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Always there is key management. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So yes a game changer but knowing what the exact game is ???</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div>