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- From: Erik.Lindano@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: New Encryption - a Challenge
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
- Message-ID: <n0ee5t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:32:24
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- Writes boucher@csl.sri.com (Peter K. Boucher):
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- > 1) It's not worth the effort to try to crack it, since...
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- OK. Don't try, then.
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- > 3) A person would be foolish to use an encryption product whose
- > algorithm is unknown, because the provider might have a way to
- > always see cleartext.
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- Yes, I have heard something like that about the DES and RSA
- algorithms. Have you?
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- --- Maximus 2.00
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