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Arjun Ray scripsit:
> Since security through obscurity is no security at all - unless you're as
> clue-challenged as this Russell Kay chappie - data being self-describing
> is irrelevant.
However, the presence of known sequences in the plaintext *is* an aid
to cryptanalysis, though probably not more than a theoretical one at
this point.
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