[TalonDJ]

cracking the transmission of the pad would be all but impossible. To crack something you have to KNOW when you randomly hit the right encryption. If all that you are decrypting is random numbers then that is all you would ever see. There would be no way to know which one was the right set of random numbers because ever solution to the attempts at decryption would give back random numbers. That is the real challenge of decrypting computer data. Unless you already know what you are looking for and how to interpret it all you ever have is random bits, even if you stumble on the right decryption. There is much more to it than just computing horsepower.

[ProudFossil]

You are saying that the real problem will be to know when you have the right or correct answer. True. In the traveling salesman problem you can put values on the connections and then look at the sum of the values in order to choose the correct solution from the multitude of solutions given by the computer. However if you use the computer to model global warming, which of the answers is the correct one? Only a proponent of the current whacko stuff on it (read AlGore) would know.

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