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Examples[edit]

Matt, I'd never heard about the light house buoy example. Probably not a BE/AE difference though. ww 16:05, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[1] Is one reference I've found on the net; I'm sure I've read it in a couple of places as well.

Thanks ww 17:17, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Disambiguation[edit]

There is some conflict between this page and the disambiguation paragraph on Gardening. The disambig calls gardening a known plaintext attack and this page seems to call it a chosen plaintext attack. I don't know enough about the subject area to intelligently edit (or even to be sure tht editing is needed). Are the two terms contradictory? If not, a clearer indication somewhere that a chosen plaintext attack is a type of known plaintext attack might be helpful (unless the truth is another alternative I haven't thought of). - Cafemusique 13:44, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've tweaked the Gardening header; it was a chosen plaintext attack (which, I guess, you could view as a subset of known-plaintext attacks — if you can choose the plaintext, you certainly know it, right? — but in practice "known-plaintext" is used with the implication that it's the strongest assumption). — Matt 17:31, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Erroneous concept[edit]

This article should be deleted, I can't find this term used in this context anywhere, even on the given reference. On that page referenced, it in fact says "The crews called mine laying 'gardening', because each sea area around the European coasts was given a code-name of flowers or vegetables! By the end of April the squadron dropped a record 1,050 mines." .... The mine laying itself was called gardening, nothing to do with cryptanalysis! I can find even other references that refer to the placing of mines as being gardening. --Nick Roberts (talk) 09:54, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose the references should be refined, if so. Deleting the article because of a too broad citation is over reaction. Oppose this suggestion. Improve, don't extirpate wholesale. ww (talk) 15:29, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's not that we need new references, it's the fact that this concept is not called gardening, which is why the article titled gardening (cryptanalysis) is erroneous. Like I said, I can't find a small mention of this being called gardening, anywhere. In the given references, it says something completely different. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick Roberts (talk • contribs) 08:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]