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Re: A Challenge (perhaps!)
At 07:46 AM 2/22/96 -0600, [email protected] (Mike McNally) wrote:
>The way I like to think of such a scheme is to consider the secret
>algorithm itself to be the key, which then drives the cryptosystem
>composed of the CPU instruction sequencer on the encrypting machine.
>Thus all messages are encrypted with the same key; it should be easy
>to see why that isn't secure.
That's a very effective way of putting it. I like that.
As it happens, it appears that I may have persuaded yet another developer
what I Strongly Suspect to be hideously insecure to post info here, or have
me do it. Turns out he's genuinely interested in doing it right. I _really_
hope this turns into a trend :-) - two in one week is pretty nifty. Good
will is a precious thing.
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Bruce Baugh
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http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce