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- From: caronni@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Germano Caronni)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: New Encryption System - Challenge!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.021238.15727@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:12:38 GMT
- References: <n0deft@ofa123.fidonet.org> <760285710DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
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- In article <760285710DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org> marc@tanda.isis.org writes:
- >In article <n0deft@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- >Erik.Lindano@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
- >
- > Whether he is just being cute, or thinks he has patent
- > possibilities, the sad fact is that the only way Erik's friend
- > will get anyone's attention is by publishing his method.
-
- I am no professional in 'sci.crypt' so what I write here might be pure
- nonsense. We are discussing about someone who claims to have
- invented a *new* method to encrypt data. We do not know anything about
- keys and algorithms.
- But if this man wants to USE his new method, the algorithm to encrypt and
- decrypt data has to be distributed in several places. Thus he would
- not be able to hinder an opponent to gain access to the algorithm.
- As far as I can see _all_ modern crypto-systems assume the algorithm
- is known to everybody who cares, the 'secure' parts are keys or
- part of keys. Or am I wrong ? (I am not talking about 'hiding' information
- but about encryption.)
- So I can understand that this friend wants to keep the algorithm secret, and
- let this newsgroup play around with a crypted text, just to protect
- his mind's work, but this is not a very realistic approach.
- If he would come up with his algorithm, then perhaps a more funded opinion
- might come back from this newsgroup, than the stuff I have read until now.
- (The word 'idiot' has fallen much too often IMHO.)
-
- gec
- --
- Instruments register only through things they're designed to register.
- Space still contains infinite unknowns.
-
- Germano Caronni caronni@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch
-