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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: <n0ee8t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:36:28
- Lines: 48
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- Writes cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison):
-
- > We are cryptologists (those of us who have experience in the
- > field). We have done cryptanalysis but we aren't the puzzle wonks
- > who just love to get their teeth into some new ciphertext to
- > break.
- >
-
- OK. No sweat. The challenge is obviously not addressed to you then.
- If you refuse to even look at the product of a new and unusual
- encryption method, you are obviously not the intended subject of
- our challenge. You don't have the curiosity or initiative. You
- are not a suitable participant for us.
-
- > This phrasing is again that of a taunt. You come across as a high
- > school kid when you talk like this. If you were to expect any
- > help at all, this would guarantee your losing it.
-
- Carl, the world throws challenges everyone's way at every minute.
- You cannot reasonably demand to exist in an environment where
- unexpected challenges do not rise at every moment. Mine was just
- an added one. Like all the others that come your way, you may:
- 1. refuse it; 2. accept it; 3. ignore it. Your choice.
-
- > Any success in avoiding cryptanalysis from ciphertext only
- > does not imply quality of the system.
-
- But one thing is absolutely certain: success in avoiding a given
- cryptanalysis is a definite proof of ability to withstand it!
- That's NOT debatable. I wonder whether it is this realization
- that motivates some of the negative comments here.
-
- > Therefore, even if you were to find a puzzle hacker on this
- > newsgroup who would like to take a stab at what you're
- > suggesting, you would have proved nothing about the quality
- > of the system (unless it got broken, of course :-).
-
- Interesting how you use denigrating terms against third parties to
- suggest the appearance of worthlessnes in NuCrypt. Old propaganda
- technique. Effective for the general public but in _this_
- environment, definitely cheap.
-
- I am just a very simple person who'd like to see whether anyone
- here, whatever his name, title or professional status, can break
- our encryption. A prize was offered to s/he who can.
-
-
- --- Maximus 2.00
-