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(newbie here) I try to analyze amateur cryptosystem and wondering, if it's possible to reduce it as reduce a very long boolean expression? What tool can I try to use?

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That's probably what I need en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_minimization – Dennis Yurichev May 15 '12 at 5:18
I just want to know, if it's reducible, because if it would be possible to reduce it significally, that would be a very optimistic sign. Is impossibility of reducibility is a measure of good cryptosystem? – Dennis Yurichev May 15 '12 at 5:47
Sorry, it is not really clear what you are asking. Do you search a tool for reducing boolean expressions? Do you search a solver? (See our algebraic-attack tag for some questions about this.) Feel free to edit this question to be more clear, and then flag is for moderator attention, and we can reopen it. – Paŭlo Ebermann♦ May 16 '12 at 22:50

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A known plaintext attack on a cryptosystem can often be expressed in the formalism of boolean satisfiability, then if the cryptosystem is weak solved using a solver program such as these ones.

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