[GTALUG] Netgear 5-port Gigabit switch -- $10 ?

David Thornton northdot9 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 27 22:29:32 UTC 2016


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/northboundnetworks/zodiac-fx-the-worlds-smallest-openflow-sdn-switch
boom!

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016, 10:27 PM James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com> wrote:

> On 03/27/2016 10:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Good crypto protocols are very much designed to not be trivial to break
> > even with some known plain text.  It is a known obvious attack so they
> > are designed to protect against exactly that.
>
> Yep, they've been doing that for centuries.  With a polyalphabetic
> cipher, each time a letter occurs in the plain text, a different letter
> is used in the cipher text.  This makes it impossible to use the
> statistical methods used with monoalphabetic ciphers, where a plain text
> letter always has the same cipher text letter.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyalphabetic_cipher
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