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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ken
- From: ken@halcyon.com (Ken Pizzini)
- Subject: Re: New Encryption - a Challenge
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.095254.13928@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- References: <n0eeet@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:52:54 GMT
- Lines: 28
-
- In article <n0eeet@ofa123.fidonet.org> Erik.Lindano@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
- >Writes rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp):
- > > To assert a NIH attitude is absurd, given that there is no _here_
- > > here.
- >
- > Oh yes, there is! Gosh, we even have a FAQ post and everything...
- > We have people who support each other against newcomers. There is a
- > remarkable solidarity among the "in" crowd. FAQ + solidarity
- > creates a definite "here" place. Don't you think? ;-)
-
- Not _Invented_ Here. Precious few, if any, of the well-regarded
- encryption schemes were developed on sci.crypt. And those with
- high regards gained these regards by withstanding the strongest
- attack: given everything but the key, devise a way better than
- exhaustive keyspace attack to decrypt a message.
-
-
- > > If your friend is truly interested in having experts assess the
- > > security of this algorithm, s/he must submit the _algorithm_ to
- > > the experts -- not the _output_ of the algorithm.
- > We certainly don't want to do that. The output is the challenge,
- > not the algorithm.
-
- Which is fine, as far as it goes, but most on sci.crypt are more
- interested in the algolrithm than the puzzle output. rec.games.misc
- might have been a better place for this particular challange.
-
- --Ken Pizzini
-