Talk:Known-plaintext attack

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is AES vulnerable to such attack? 85.250.35.237 23:09, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where does the info on Bletchley Park come from? I checked the citation and the Appendix C only contains the info on ANX, nothing about "gardening" or known plaintext attacks.

Sources[edit]

Much of this page appears to have been lifted verbatim from here, which was part of an online game about Bletchley Park. The page in question was written on January 5, 2010, so compare with [edit of 6 August 2010]. Is this a reliable source? Is the information probably sound even if we should not use this as a source? Perhaps it needs to be reworked. Leutha (talk) 10:53, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Leutha: The diff you linked is actually a merge from another article; this content existed on Wikipedia already in 2009 under Crib (cryptanalysis). So it looks like the blog copied Wikipedia instead. That article did have some sources already, so it's possibly just an issue of lacking footnotes.

Note that if you truly find content on Wikipedia that was copied from other sources, it should be treated as a copyright violation, not just a sourcing issue. -- intgr [talk] 12:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Rated article[edit]

I rated this article as Start-class (since it's fairly long and well-referenced, albeit not comprehensive at all) and High-importance (by analogy to the similar topics Known-ciphertext attack and Chosen-ciphertext attack.) Please review; thanks.Duckmather (talk) 17:07, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article should say which (types of) ciphers (besides OTP) are not vulnerable to known-plaintext attacks.[edit]

Apokrif (talk) 23:40, 21 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Page needs huge improvements - mostly irrelevant[edit]

This is an active and on going concern for cryptography today and the article only talks about history.

There needs to be modern examples, demonstrated via code, and if possible links to methods which counter this kind of attack.

"Make the changes yourself" - no, editing wikipedia is a complete waste of time without personally knowing a moderator/janny. 219.89.51.203 (talk) 11:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion. Feel free to make the changes yourself. You don't need to personally know a moderator. --Srleffler (talk) 06:57, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]