Re: Brute Force attack on VMS

[Gold <gold@xxxxxx>]

At 08:43 AM 8/28/00 , Anders, Claus wrote:

>Dear all,
>has someone tried a brute force attack on the VMS ?
>If not, why ? And if, got any results ?
>(brute force-> try every possible combination of char to vms-char ordered or
>random chosen and the looking up the outcome (for example the 1st page)
>Claus

An empiric brute force attack would take a lot of time and energy and would
seem
inappropriate for what is probably, essentially, a non-empiric cipher.....

Turiyan