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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!shearson.com!snark!pmetzger
- From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
- Subject: Amateur cryptosystem design
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.152133.19864@shearson.com>
- Keywords: DES mcrypt binary
- Sender: news@shearson.com (News)
- Organization: Lehman Brothers
- References: <1992Aug12.211605.17936@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:21:33 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- knight@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Knight of Tossing and Turning) writes:
- >I just confirmed that DES does indeed do 8 bit binary encryptions.
- >Flame off. Chill.
-
- Gee, for a person contemplating creating a new cryptosystem, wouldn't
- it have been nice to know in advance what other cryptosystems do?
-
- >Please be patient with me, I'm spending lots of time and have very
- >little resources to delve into the subject. Someone suggested
- >taking "classes" on cryptography. Sorry, no such classes are taught
- >within 200 miles of where I live. I've ordered some books on
- >encryption which should arrive at the regional library within a
- >few months. Research machines for me include a Prime 4150, my
- >386 at home, and the FSF machines.
-
- "Please be patient with me. I'm really enthusiastic about doing brain
- surgery, and its highly unfair of all of you to discriminate against
- me because I've never read a book on biology, and this stuff about
- going to med school, well, I just can't afford it. You are all such
- jerks for being nasty to me about all this; I think I can do brain
- surgery as well as the next guy. Hell, I bought a scalpel last week,
- see!"
-
- --
- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
- --
- Just say "NO!" to death and taxes.
- Extropian and Proud.
-