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5/30/2002 6:05:50 PM, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com> wrote:
>Someone who understands encryption would have to answer that.
>The article is not that informative but it is an interesting
>question.
I don't know much about encryption, but from reading about
cryptanalysis in WWWII it would appear that having a "crib"
(a bit of known plaintext) is a useful shortcut to breaking a cipher.
The tags in an XML message are likely to be known (or easily
guessable) by an attacker. So, a straightforward encryption of
an entire XML message might be considerably less secure than
an encryption of a non-self-describing message.
I was sortof wondering if that was what was being implied in
the article, but it was never stated clearly.
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