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- From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
- Subject: Re: New ENcryption - a Challenge
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.023304.27791@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:33:04 GMT
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- Erik,
-
- Ex cathedra you say. Canon we say and canon for a long time. You just
- don't want to hear that. I sincerely suggest that you exit stage left
- with your macho nonesense until you have successfully protected your
- algorithm with a patent filing and are willing to make it known. Then
- and only then will people who care about, know about and think about
- crypto be interested in your challenge. The point is so simple I don't
- see why you fail to see it. The ciphertext may well resist attack
- without knowing the algorithm but be trivially broken knowing it and
- no system with that property is considered secure by anyone in or
- peripheral to the field. Please come back when you are protected and
- are willing to follow the rules by disclosing the algorithm. Until
- then, enough already!
-
- Later,
-
- Bob
- --
- Bob Cain rcain@netcom.com 408-358-2007
-
- "There are some strings. They're just not attached."
- Victoria Roberts
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- PGP 1.0 or 2.0 public key available on request.
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