> If your cipher is vulnerable to a known plaintext attack much > faster than brute force, you should be using a better cipher. > Such an attack would be considered by cryptographers to be a > "break" of the cipher. > > Computatational immunity to _chosen_ plaintext attacks is a > sine qua non of a good cipher. is AES immune to chosen plaintext attacks? Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/