Re: [OT] Interference by multiple encryption.

[Jan Luehr <jluehr@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2005 02:55 schrieb Florian Reitmeir:
> Hi,
[...]
> http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
>
> there are some criterias for ciphers by design which answer your querstion:
>
> - the cipher output should be random, so there is no way to guess the
> cipher itself, nor the original content

This is rather logical.
Considering this, I don't understand how / why does gnupg know what cipher is 
used (aes, twofish, etc.) if I try to decrypt symmetric encrypted data (at 
least)?

Keep smiling
yanosz

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