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Re: Fractal cryptography
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writes Hal Finney:
>
>Now, maybe this particular fractal cryptosystem idea will actually work
>well. I don't know; I haven't seen it. But the point is that these
>complex types of systems have not provided a good foundation for crypto-
>graphy in the past.
>
(First, sorry for bringing up an old subject, I was at SC93, and now
have 500 messages to surf through)
I read an article in Electronic Engineering Times a while back (summer, I
think), about some researchers doing encryption with chaos... they had
two decryption chips (I think they used DSPs) that had a synchronized
chaotic stream going between them, which they both used to [en,de]crypt
the data...
This seems kind of silly, since (assuming an intelligent adversary),
they could just tap the chaotic flow, and start listening...
Am I missing something?
- -nate
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