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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: <n0eedt@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:45:52
- Lines: 27
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- Writes Ken Pizzini:
-
- > > You are absolutely wrong.
- >
- > Oh, c'mon now. If the scheme is to be used by more than a small
- > handful of people then at least the executable will be available
- > for analysis. And with a suitible effort at disassembly/
- > decompiling it can be analysed for the underlying algolrithm.
-
- You are thinking in very conventional ways. Perhaps we use a
- hexadecimal Ouija board to point at letters and don't really know
- WHAT it'll do next... :-) It's determined by the spirits.
- A spiritual key. (Actually, I have been authorized to say now that
- NuCrypt relies on the use of embedded 2048-bit shifting keys.)
-
- > Your proposed modification of the prize to include airfare in
- > addition to dinner is much better incentive -- before you were
- > suggesting that someone spend their time breaking your system and
- > spending hundreds of dollars of their own money in order to claim
- > a "free" dinner. Didn't sound like much of an inducement to me.
-
- OK, I think you're right, it wasn't attractive. Such mercantile
- minds. Sheesh. No cryptolibido. All those limp mental muscles.
- So, we'll make the prize a little better, then.
-
-
- --- Maximus 2.00
-