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- From: Erik.Lindano@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: New Encryption Method - a Challenge!
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 5 1992
- Message-ID: <n0e07t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 09 Nov 92 23:08:48
- Lines: 44
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- Writes lwloen@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Larry Loen):
-
- > Please send your friend to the library first. Also, please see
- > my recent posting "temporary, independent FAQ" for sci.crypt.
- >
-
- I already sent him to the library. He says he couldn't find anything
- related to his program there.
-
- >
- > It is much, much easier to propose a system than to analyze it
- > properly. You will probably find little enthusiasm here and that
- > may be a mystery to you until you read the FAQ file.
-
- I don't want to get myself involved in the technical aspects of
- cryptology (-graphy?). I was simply in the process of trying to
- judge something that had been presented to me, and I wanted to
- find out whether any of the people who often write authoritative
- articles here about encryption, etc., are really able to actually
- crack a certain encryption product or whether they're just good
- at writing theoretical posts, that's all.
-
- I realize that it must be a lot easier to just post theoretical
- considerations on such matters than to do any _actual_ decryption,
- but I thought that the experts here were knowledgeable in a
- real, practical sense, and capable of putting their obvious
- knowledge to actual use, that's all. Perhaps I was mistaken.
-
- The most peculiar thing about your rejection, and that of the other
- person who replied, is that both of you are rejecting the challenge
- _without having ever seen the product you are rejecting!_. This
- worries me immensely. Makes me wonder if you may not simply be
- avoiding the challenge under some pretenses. Am I mistaken?
-
- In my experience in the technical world, I've found that prouncing
- some idea to be unworthy _ex cathedra_ gathers applause only among
- the NIH (Not-Invented-Here) crowd. The rest of the world sees only
- their arbitrary pronouncement, and doesn't give much credit to the
- rejecter(s).
-
- But if all these experts are unwilling to even _try_... hmmmm.
-
-
- --- Maximus 2.00
-